Part A: Course Overview
Course Title: Industrial Design Prototyping 2
Credit Points: 12.00
Terms
Course Code |
Campus |
Career |
School |
Learning Mode |
Teaching Period(s) |
ARCH3355 |
City Campus |
Undergraduate |
370H Design |
Face-to-Face |
Sem 1 2025 |
Course Coordinator: Judith Glover
Course Coordinator Phone: Please email
Course Coordinator Email: judith.glover@rmit.edu.au
Course Coordinator Location: School of Design, RMIT University, City Campus
Course Coordinator Availability: Via email appointment
Pre-requisite Courses and Assumed Knowledge and Capabilities
Requisite Courses
Successful completion of Industrial Design Prototyping 1 GRAP 1052/2933
Note: it is a condition of enrolment at RMIT that you accept responsibility for ensuring that you have completed the prerequisite/s and agree to concurrently enrol in co-requisite courses before enrolling in a course.
For your information go to RMIT Course Requisites webpage.
Recommended Prior Study
You should have satisfactorily completed Industrial Design Drawing 1 (GRAP1049/2924) and Computer-Aided Industrial Design 1 (GRAP1050/2931) before you commence this course.
Alternatively, you may be able to demonstrate the required skills and knowledge before you start this course.
Contact your Course Coordinator for further information or if you think you may be eligible for recognition of prior learning.
Course Description
Design Prototyping 2 extends your capacity in industrial design prototyping and the manipulation of materials, tools, and machines in a creative and responsible manner. You will undertake a variety of practical exercises and projects in workshop and studio environments to understand how various materials may be processed in the development and realisation of design concepts. You will learn a design prototyping workflow moving between desktop modelling, digital fabrication, and industrial processes to plan and manage the often-complex process of translating a design idea to a functional prototype.
This is a core course in the BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program.
Objectives/Learning Outcomes/Capability Development
Program Learning Outcomes
This course contributes to the following BH104P25 Bachelor of Industrial Design (Honours) program learning outcomes:
PLO1: Apply analytical, critical, creative, and strategic thinking to industrial design problems and research across complex, place-based, and cultural contexts.
PLO3: Articulate complex design ideas with respect for diverse audiences using an adaptable range of technologies, techniques, and modes of representation.
PLO6: Initiate, plan, manage, and realise research-led design projects in an independent, relational, reflective, and ethical manner.
If you are taking this course as an option course or as part of a minor, this course will complement the learning outcomes you are developing in your program.
Course Learning Outcomes
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Take responsibility for key design and fabrication decisions with appreciation of the impacts of the materials you use on the environment and on people.
- Ensure care, safety for yourself and others by planning, managing, adapting, and self-evaluating your prototyping activities in industrial environments.
- Demonstrate confidence working with various materials and prototyping processes, identifying issues as they arise and adjusting plans and procedures to address them.
- Document projects, prototyping processes, tests, and experiments in a reflective manner that supports future practice.
Overview of Learning Activities
You will be actively engaged in practical learning supported by a range of face to face and/or online activities such as lectures, tutorials, group and class discussions, and activities in specialist workshops and labs. The technical knowledge and skills you are to develop through practice in this course will require you to undertake and manage your own skills development in a self-directed manner.
Overview of Learning Resources
RMIT will provide you with resources and tools for learning in this course through our online systems.
To effectively participate in coursework, either on, or away from campus, you are advised to obtain (as a minimum) the following:
- Drawing supplies including visual diaries, pens, pencils, markers and ancillary products and consumables.
- Personal Protective Equipment including protective eyewear, ear plugs, a dust jacket, and closed toe safety shoes.
- Prototyping supplies including a 150mm steel ruler, a high-quality craft knife and ancillary products, materials, and consumables.
- Design and documentation equipment including a personal computer of an appropriate specification, course specific software, a digital camera or mobile phone.
When on campus you will have access to and will utilise the School of Design workshop facilities, specialist computer labs and software, and 2D and 3D printing facilities.
Course specific resources such as readings, reference lists, access to specialist software, video demonstrations and class notes will be provided online.
There are services and resources available to support your learning through the University Library. The Library provides guides on academic referencing and subject specialist help as well as a range of study support services. For further information, please visit the Library page on the RMIT University website and the RMIT student website.
A Library Subject Guide for the discipline this course is aligned to can be found here: https://rmit.libguides.com/design-industrial
Overview of Assessment
You will be assessed on how well you meet the course learning outcomes and your development against the program learning outcomes.
Core Course
Please note that this course is a core course in the Bachelor of Industrial Design (Hons) program. This course is not numerically graded and will not contribute to the calculation of your Weighted Academic Mark (WAM). That means you will receive either a Pass Grade (PX) or a Fail Grade (NN) on completion.
The assessment task percentage weightings give you an indication of the volume and significance of the work required relative to the whole course experience.
For assessment tasks due for submission during the relevant semester teaching period, if you receive a Fail Grade on work submitted you will have one week to address the specific feedback and resubmit for reassessment. For assessment tasks due after the conclusion of classes this option is not available.
To successfully complete this course, you need to have passed all assessment tasks.
Courses with a PX grade structure are automatically excised from the calculation of your Grade Point Average (GPA) and are not included in the calculation of Weighted Academic Mark (WAM) for embedded Bachelor Honours programs.
This approach to grading and assessment is aimed at ensuring each course is inclusive of student diversity and prior learning and capabilities can be developed as is appropriate to your discipline and interests.
Assessment Tasks
Task 1: Investigation
Weighting 10%
This assessment task supports CLO 1
Task 2: Process Inquiry
Weighting 30%
This assessment task supports CLO 2, CLO 3
Task 3: Project
Weighting 30%
This assessment task supports CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3
Task 4: Project and Documentation
Weighting 30%
This assessment task supports CLO 1, CLO 2, CLO 3, CLO 4
Feedback will be given on all assessment tasks.
If you have a long-term medical condition and/or disability it may be possible to negotiate to vary aspects of the learning or assessment methods. You can contact the program coordinator or Equitable Learning Services if you would like to find out more.
Your course assessment conforms to RMIT assessment principles, regulations, policies, procedures, and instructions.