Teaching design and engineering: A review of product design engineering programs offered through the faculty of design, swinburne university of technology

Traditional industrial design courses consider the design of products, services and systems within a context of understanding changing social issues, aesthetic sensibility and an understanding of Design history and art history and related practices while traditional Engineering courses empower students to fully investigate new materials, emergent technologies and Engineering tools. The challenge for our new Product Design Engineering course is to take the best of both and educate tomorrow’s product designer.