Overview

This unit develops students’ professional attributes and fine-tune product design skills by exploring entrepreneurial skills, ethical design, digital communication, interpersonal skills and management. It also aims to strengthen the students' self-evaluation capabilities to ensure a professional Product Design Engineering portfolio upon graduating.

Teaching periods
Location
Start and end dates
Last self-enrolment date
Census date
Last withdraw without fail date
Results released date
Semester 2
Location
Hawthorn
Start and end dates
04-August-2025
02-November-2025
Last self-enrolment date
17-August-2025
Census date
31-August-2025
Last withdraw without fail date
19-September-2025
Results released date
09-December-2025

Learning outcomes

Students who successfully complete this unit will be able to:

  • Implement finite element analysis to industrial applications (K1, K2, K3, K6, S1, S2, S3, A4)
  • Articulate knowledge of product design and product detailing skills through highly articulated design solutions and manage multiple projects running concurrently (K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, K6, S1, S2, S3, S4, A1, A2, A4, A5, A7)
  • Communicate and refine designs with 3D modelling and rapid prototyping to create professional project outcomes (K2, K3, S1, S3, A5)
  • Develop engineering drawing documentation to a professional level (Australian Standard AS1100) (K2, K3, K6, S1, S3, A5)
  • Use appropriate design communication skills through the development of a professional portfolio (K3, K5, A2, A3, A4, A6)

Teaching methods

Hawthorn

Type Hours per week Number of weeks Total (number of hours)
On-campus
Studio		3.00 12 weeks 36
Specified Activities
Various		2.17 12 weeks 26
Unspecified Activities
Independent Learning		7.33 12 weeks 88
Online
Learning activities		2.00 3 weeks 6
TOTAL156

Assessment

Type Task Weighting ULO's
Major ProjectIndividual 70% 1,2,3,4 
PortfolioIndividual 30% 1,2,3,4,5 

Content

  • Professional folio development
  • Application of product illustration and digital rendering techniques to a professional level
  • Presentation and inter-personal skills
  • Application of quality management systems to product designs
  • Analysis of product reliability,  performance and complexity
  • Application of ergonomic principles and analysis of product semantics
  • Design,  management and construction of exhibition design

Study resources

Reading materials

A list of reading materials and/or required textbooks will be available in the Unit Outline on Canvas.