斯威本科技大学

Become an industrial designer with a degree built for the digital world. Boost your CV with a work placement or a project at Design Factory Melbourne. Create 3D objects that people will reach for every day – beautiful, user-centred and technically flawless.

From furniture to mobile phones, you’ll be ready for any design brief that comes your way. Swinburne’s Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (Honours) teaches you to tap into your inner innovator and creator. Think about materials, not just maths. Study the emotional impact of design, as well as the mechanics of structures.

This is a contemporary industrial design course, where creativity meets practicality (learn to start an online business!), new technologies and sustainability – a combination that will set you apart from the pack.

Course structure

Successful completion of the Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (Honours) requires students to complete units of study to the value of 400 credit points. All units of study are valued at 12.5 credit points unless otherwise stated.

Course learning outcomes

Graduates of the Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (Honours) will have a broad and coherent body of knowledge about Industrial Design, with depth in the underlying principles and concepts in Industrial Design and its applications in other specialised fields as a basis for independent lifelong learning.

This course aims to develop creative and technological aptitude through a user-centred design program supported by business studies, new and emerging manufacturing and material technologies, professional practice, design psychology, consumer knowledge, applied research, sustainability and design ethics.

On successful completion of the Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) (Honours), graduates will be able to: analyse, consolidate, synthesise and evaluate design theories and manufacturing principles with a considerable degree of independence; systematically review and critically evaluate research from a variety of sources to inform their knowledge and conceptual understandings in their chosen area of Industrial Design; critically analyse information to generate creative solutions that solve complex, self-determined, design problems; apply tacit knowledge and technical skills to demonstrate a broad understanding of Industrial Design knowledge with depth in product development, digital CAD, manufacturing knowledge and ideation and manual sketching skills; apply knowledge and cognitive and creative skills to exercise critical thinking and judgement in identifying and solving Industrial Design problems independently and collaboratively; employ their advanced theoretical and scholarly knowledge to the resolution of diverse design problems; propose a clear, coherent and independent exposition of knowledge and ideas about Industrial Design to different audiences and stakeholders; integrate their cognitive and technical skills with principles of sustainability in order to create responsible design solutions; plan and manage their own time and project work effectively by prioritising competing demands and deadlines.

Career opportunities

Our alumni have worked in Breville, Dyson, Nura headphones, Blackmagic creative video technology, Jardan furniture, Katapult Design and more. They’ve created the Handydesk and co-founded companies like Steelotto furniture and Ichpig streetwear.

Among other possibilities, graduates may find jobs undertaking product design for, and within, manufacturing industries or design consultancies, for exhibitions, for environmental and furniture design, or as self-employed designers or manufacturers.

Graduates are also eligible to apply for entry into the Master of Design or a PhD program.