Overview

Equip yourself with the right technical expertise and skills for your field of choice with the Bachelor of Engineering (Honours). With placements, internships, international study tours and tons of hands-on experience, Swinburne Engineering is simply second-to-none for Work Integrated Learning. Come graduation, you’ll be ready to take on your chosen career – and the world.

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Your major

Product Design

The product design major combines the creativity and human-centred approach of industrial design with the academic rigour of engineering science and innovation. As part of a degree professionally accredited by Engineers Australia, you’ll develop skills needed to design and develop competitive products for Australian and international markets through plenty of industry projects.

Your industry experience

Build up your CV with real industry experience through our Work Integrated Learning programs, guaranteed in all bachelor degrees, which include placements, internships, or industry-linked projects. In this degree, you'll apply your learning in eight professionally focused, industry-linked projects, with guaranteed industry-based projects every semester starting from year 1.

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Skills you’ll learn

  • Human-centred design
  • Mechanical engineering applications
  • Product design and manufacturing
  • Creativity and innovation

Your career opportunities

  • Industrial designer
  • Industrial engineer
  • Product designer
  • Product design engineer
  • Entrepreneur
  • Design consultant

Key codes

CRICOS course code
107337H
VTAC Code (IFP)
3400210743
VTAC Code (CSP)
3400210741
International student visa

International students in Australia who hold student visas are required to study full-time and on campus. Courses that are taught entirely online are only available to international students studying outside Australia or those in Australia who are not on a student visa. Online courses are not available to international students in Australia who hold a student visa.

Labs

Explore Swinburne’s advanced engineering labs, where students and researchers collaborate to innovate, test, and drive the future of technology.

Professional accreditations

Why Swinburne?

86.1% of graduates found employment within 4 months of completing their course

#45 for Automation and Control

Top 100 for Electrical and Electronic Engineering

Ranked Top 175 in Engineering and Technology

Times Higher Education World University Ranking by Subject 2023

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