C5435 - Diploma of Product Design

Plan: C5435 - Diploma of Product Design
Campus: Brunswick Campus

Program delivery and structure

Approach to learning and assessment
Work integrated learning
Program structure

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Approach to learning and assessment

This program is delivered full time (2 years) over 4 semesters (16 week per semester) at RMIT Brunswick Campus.

The approach to learning and assessment for this program will include both supervised and non-supervised forms of training delivery. 
Supervised training is teacher directed learning and assessment activities. This includes:

• Face-to-face learning e.g. tutorials, worshops, lectures, scheduled classes.
• Structured online learning activities where there is real time access to your teachers e.g. online lectures, teacher led discussions and online activities.
• Assessment tasks.

You will be provided with additional LLN support if required and the LLN practitioner will attend classes face-to-face to support and is also available outside of class time as required per student cohort and individual appointments.

The activities below support the your learning: 

• Lectures and tutorials  
• Work Integrated Learning (WIL) in a simulated industry activity  
• Workshop activities  
• Structured prescribed reading  
• Projects and assignments  
• Prescribed follow up activities  
• Discipline practice 

You will also develop professional skills: 

• communication
• problem solving
• planning and organising
• self-management 
• Learning

The units are delivered to scaffold from basic skills through to a more advanced understanding and developed skill semester by semester.

For learning and assessment purposes following units of competency have been grouped into a cluster: 

Introduction to Product Design 

CUADES422 Research and apply techniques in product design  

CUADES512 Establish, negotiate and refine a design brief 

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Work integrated learning

RMIT University is committed to providing you with an education that strongly links formal learning with workplace experience. As a student enrolled in this RMIT University program you will be assessed on structured activities that allow you to learn, apply and
demonstrate vocational competency.

The designated WIL course for this program is VU23429 Develop a product range to meet market opportunities 

In this unit you will be working on an external project for a client in a simulated environment based on a real industry-based briefs. Projects are selected keeping student's outcomes in consideration and looking at the best possible design experience from the students.

Industry is also consulted to prepare the project briefs. You will work in teams with your cohorts and with other students from other programs. The intention of these WIL activities is to provide you with an opportunity to work on live projects.  

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Program Structure

This qualification requires completion of the following:
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C5435 Core Courses
Complete all seventeen (17) core courses:
Course Title Nominal Hours Course Code Campus Research and apply techniques in product design (CUADES422) 60 GRAP9475C Brunswick Campus Establish, negotiate and refine a design brief (CUADES512) 65 GRAP5409C Brunswick Campus Produce drawings to communicate ideas (CUAACD311) 90 VART6531C Brunswick Campus Explore and apply the creative design process to 3D forms (CUADES303) 60 GRAP5418C Brunswick Campus Apply work health and safety practices (CUAWHS312) 30 PUBH5216C Brunswick Campus Design sustainable product or process (MSS015044) 100 MANU9428C Brunswick Campus Develop personal work priorities (BSBPEF402) 40 BUSM8937C Brunswick Campus Produce 2D product design drawings using software applications (VU23427) 85 GRAP9476 Brunswick Campus Design products from a brief (VU23428) 144 GRAP9477 Brunswick Campus Generate and transfer complex computer-aided drawings and specifications (MSFFDM5009) 72 GRAP9478C Brunswick Campus Make scale models (CUAACD314) 50 VART6550C Brunswick Campus Analyse cultural history and theory (CUARES503) 70 OART5007C Brunswick Campus Develop a product range to meet market opportunities (VU23429) 144 GRAP9479 Brunswick Campus Produce computer-aided drawings (CUAACD312) 60 GRAP9474C Brunswick Campus Create 3D digital models (CUAANM313) 75 VART6549C Brunswick Campus Develop products incorporating mechanical, electrical and/or digital features (VU23430) 180 GRAP9480 Brunswick Campus Make Presentations (BSBCMM411) 30 COMM5473C Brunswick Campus
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C5435 Elective Courses
Complete all seven (7) elective courses:
Course Title Nominal Hours Course Code Campus Refine drawing and other visual representation tools (CUAACD531) 80 VART6499C Brunswick Campus Use 3D printing to create products (VU22340) 40 MANU9429 Brunswick Campus Research and select manufacturing technologies (MSFFDM4019) 30 GRAP9481C Brunswick Campus Refine model making skills (CUAACD508) 65 VART6486C Brunswick Campus Research and develop business plans (BSBESB401) 50 BUSM8938C Brunswick Campus Undertake project work (BSBPMG430) 60 BUSM6536C Brunswick Campus Produce innovative digital images (CUADIG415) 70 VART6551C Brunswick Campus
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