Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design)

Innovate on an industrial scale

Industrial design has its roots in the designing and making of products, and the understanding and application of design in manufacturing. With a Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) you'll apply both traditional and advanced digital techniques to a wide range of products, while gaining a knowledge of both materials and production processes. You'll explore advanced communication skills, including digital manipulation and fabrication via additive and subtractive technologies, and will develop user-centred approaches to developing products.

The course will allow you to develop in-depth understandings of your specialised area while also expanding your potential as a designer. You'll graduate as a resilient and adaptive design professional capable of solving a wide array of problems, and able to make significant contributions to any interdisciplinary industrial design team.

Study a Bachelor of Design (Industrial Design) at UC and you will:

• identify the different stages of the 'design for manufacture' process
• select appropriate methods, materials and processes for designing and prototyping products
• learn to apply advanced 2D and 3D digital design technologies
• utilise a range of intuitive and rational creative design approaches which will allow you to explore relevant and innovative solutions.

Work Integrated Learning

Work Integrated Learning (WIL) is embedded in this course, providing you with opportunities for direct industry engagement at every level of your study. You'll be involved in projects which realise creative design solutions for real-world clients, and industry projects in the past have included work with Breville, Sunbeam, Tiller Design, Blue Sky Design, Belconnen Community Council and Design Resource. Previous student WIL internships have been with furniture, lighting and product design company, SKEEHAN, and transport design firm TransitGraphics.

Career opportunities

• Design consultant
• Design strategist
• Product designer
• Furniture designer
• Consumer appliance designer
• Design researcher
• 3D modeller
• Digital manufacturing designer
• Advanced manufacturing designer

Course-specific information

Signature overseas short-term study options have been tailored specifically to this course so that high-achieving students have an opportunity to work with leading designers and students at prestigious overseas institutions. Students can choose to use their breadth units for their overseas Study Abroad experience.

High-achieving students also have the option to take units in the Masters of Design Strategies in their final year of study.