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RMIT University

The course explains how the industrial designers invent, visualise, prototype and ultimately deliver resolved design solutions to complex problems in the form of new products and services. From the air-powered O2 Pursuit motorcycle to the design of an open-source prosthetic fabrication laboratory, RMIT is at the forefront of contemporary industrial design. For over 60 years industrial design at RMIT has offered aspiring designers technical, theoretical and applied immersions into the diverse and dynamic fields of industrial design practice. Significant scope is given to explore both established and emerging domains of the discipline as well as to develop capabilities and professional ethics through design. The student will be explored by producing commercially oriented approaches to product, transportation and furniture design, design of sustainable product/service/systems, design of technologically and materially mediated interactions and experiences, design as a mechanism for enabling social reform and cultural enrichment, the possibilities of form, process and material in response to rapid technological advances, the increasingly blurred intersections of our digital and material worlds, design as a way to address the needs of clients, user groups and communities.
Current Year 12 prerequisite units 3 and 4—a study score of at least 30 in English (ESL) or at least 25 in any other English.
The major studies includes technical, theoretical and applied immersions into the diverse and dynamic fields of industrial design practice. Furniture design, design of sustainable product/service/systems, design of technologically and materially mediated interactions and experiences, design as a mechanism for enabling social reform and cultural enrichment is studied in this course.
Student must have successfully completed an Australian Year 12 or an equivalent senior secondary school qualification with a minimum average of 70%.For information on international qualifications and corresponding entry requirements that are equivalent to an Australian Year 12, see the Entry requirements by country web page.Equivalent qualifications may also include completion of the RMIT Foundation Studies program or a recognised post secondary diploma in the relevant discipline with the required grades.
After completing this course graduates are eligible for membership of the Environment Institute of Australia and New Zealand.Design Institute of Australia - students are eligible for student membership and graduates are eligible for full membership.International Interaction Designers Association (IxDA) - students/graduates are eligible for membership.Association of Women Industrial Designers (AWID) - students/graduates are eligible for membership.
Graduates work as designers for product and manufacturing companies, in the consultancy, entertainment, education, cultural and services sectors, and for research institutions. Cross-disciplinary designers work in emerging fields of design practice; others start and run their own design or product-producing businesses.
4 years full-time.International student visa holders can only study full-time.