Our product design engineering courses teach you the fundamentals of creating innovative and sustainable products. You’ll gain expertise in technology, production methods and materials so you can successfully deliver for your client.

With practical workshops and industry projects giving you hands-on experience, our product design engineering degrees show you how to turn theory into reality. 

When you graduate, you’ll have the skills to create products that don’t just look good, but work effectively and become integral to our everyday lives. Browse our courses to find detailed course information, application dates, entry requirements, fees, subjects, ATAR calculator and more. 

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Product Design Engineering at Swinburne

Product Design Engineering at Swinburne

Explore the design and development of innovative, sustainable products with a Swinburne product design engineering degree. Learn how you can bring your ideas to life through this unique combination of industrial design and engineering.

Student work

  • Stephen, Solar Ranger: Professional project
    Stephen, Solar Ranger: Professional project
  • Engineering student work, baby bottle design.
    Natasha, Aura – Portable baby bottle steriliser: Professional project
  • Engineering student work, baby seat design.
    Jareth, Bubsaver: Professional project
  • Engineering student work, bike design.
    Gareth, Street Smart – Bike ID: Professional project
  • Engineering student work, golf club design.
    Alexander, Hybrid Buddy: Professional project
  • Engineering student work, hospital bed design.
    Clint, Disappearing Bed: Professional project

The Swinburne Advantage

An undergraduate degree must be about more than just knowledge – it’s also job readiness, professional experience and access to further opportunities. 

We partner with leading Australian and global organisations to offer students authentic workplace experiences. Our degrees can include placements, internships, industry-linked projects, study tours and more. This is your chance to work on real-life projects, solve day-to-day challenges in your field and gain the professional skills that put knowledge into practice. You’ll build invaluable skills and confidence, knowing you have what it takes to land a job by graduation or even before. 

  • GRADUATE SUCCESS

    Graduate re-invents the water bottle

    memobottle is a multi-million dollar company challenging one of the world's biggest environmental issues: single-use, plastic water bottles. Co-founder of memobottle, Jesse Leeworthy, studied a Bachelor of Engineering (Product Design) (Honours) at Swinburne. His design has taken him around the world, and the innovative bottle was even included in 2016 Oscar Awards gift bags.

  • Microfabications workshop

    FACILITIES AND EQUIPMENT

    Discover Swinburne's Microfabrication Facility

    This state-of-the-art facility enables researchers, teachers and local industry in areas of engineering and applied science to work with micrometre accuracy.

  • NEWS

    Engineering student races into motorsport career

    Engineering student Tom McCausland is one of four Swinburne interns at motorsport team, Walkinshaw Andretti United. Discover what he's doing in pitstop design and analysis.

  • Healthcare entrepreneur wins award

    Swinburne product design engineering graduate Jacqueline Savage has won the Victorian Entrepreneur Award as part of the 2016 Telstra Business Women’s Awards.

    She was recognised for her start-up medical device company MedCorp Technologies, which develops wearable technologies for the healthcare industry, and is based in Swinburne's Innovation Precinct.

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  • Female student on a professional placement stands in the office and smiles to camera

    Work Integrated Learning

    Swinburne guarantees real industry experience in all our bachelor degrees in the form of placements, internships or industry-linked projects.

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