Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (commonly abbreviated as Shenkar) is a public college in Ramat Gan, Israel. Shenkar serves the Israeli industry by providing academic qualification and R&D services for modern industries. Shenkar is also considered as the top design school in Israel.

History

Shenkar was established in 1970, with the goal of serving Israeli industry. The college is named after Aryeh Shenkar, founder and first president of the Manufacturers Association of Israel (formerly Industrialists' Union in The Land of Israel) and a pioneer in the Israeli textile industry. Shenkar has three faculties: Multidisciplinary Art, Design and Engineering. Shenkar faculties offer four-year undergraduate

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s, taught in Hebrew. The design and the engineering faculties offer postgraduate degrees in design and in plastics engineering, respectively. Shenkar is accredited by the

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as an institute of higher education and its three faculties are authorized to award bachelor's degrees in

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, design and engineering. The school, in cooperation with Israel's Industry, Trade and Labor Ministry and National Institute for Technological Training, operates a

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school, which is located in Tel Aviv, outside of Shenkar's main campus. According to Fashionista magazine, Shenkar is ranked 15th in "The Top 50 Fashion Schools In The World" list, as of 2010.

Classroom and research facilities

The main campus, in Ramat Gan, consists mainly of two buildings. First, is the Frances and David Pernick Building. The Pernick Building was the first building that Shenkar occupied when the college was established in 1970. Back then, the building was an ORT high-school building that was no longer in use. In 1990, the building was renamed in honor of Frances and David Pernick. The second building is the Edward D. and Anna Mitchell Building. It was inaugurated in 2002 and built with the help of the Mitchell Foundation, the Lorber family and the Manufacturers Association of Israel. The seven-story building, which also has two underground levels, houses classrooms, and seminar rooms for design and engineering. Outside of the main campus is the fine arts building. It is located in the Israeli Diamond Exchange District (approximately 800 meters from the main campus) and was formerly utilized as the '

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building'. *Shenkar's research facilities: **Rose Archive for Textiles and Costumes **Kadar Design and Technology Center **The Edelstein Center for the Analysis of

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**The Joe Weinstein Center for Research in

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**Textile Testing Laboratories **Design Research Center **Rapid Prototype Center **

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Center **Center for

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**Green Design & Technologies *Other facilities are: **The Shenkar Forum for Culture and Society ** CIM Laboratory **The Sidney & Anita Bernstein Library

Student union

Shenkar's Student Association is an independent, self-governing student body. Members also belong to the

National Union of Israeli Students The National Union of Israeli Students (Hebrew: התאחדות הסטודנטים בישראל, Arabic: إتحاد الطلاب في إسرائيل; NUIS) has been the representative body of students' throughout Israel since 1934. Today NUIS repr ...

and benefit from all the advantages afforded to students in Israel and abroad. Shenkar offers students diversified financial support in sports, cultural, educational and social programs.

Alumni

The Alumni Association of Shenkar was founded in 2009 as a non-profit organization. Its goal is to aid the alumni by creating a connection array, which would support joint interests, continuing business success and the empowerment of Shenkar's alumni reputation.

Notable alumni

Inbal Dror Inbal Dror ( he, ענבל דרור, born 1976) is an Israeli fashion designer known for her contemporary wedding gowns. She launched her eponymously-named ''couture'' brand in 2005 and her bridal label in 2014. She designed the wedding dress of I ...

Alber Elbaz Alber Elbaz ( he, אלבר אלבז; 12 June 1961 – 24 April 2021) was an Israeli fashion designer. He was the creative director of Lanvin in Paris from 2001 until 2015, after having done stints at a number of other fashion houses, including G ...

Hila Klein Hila Klein (; born December 12, 1986) is an Israeli-American YouTuber, designer, and businesswoman. She is known for co-creating the channel h3h3Productions—on which she is a host alongside her husband, Ethan Klein—and is also the founding ...

Nili Lotan Nili Lotan ( he, נילי לוטן) is an Israeli-American fashion designer best known as the founder of the Nili Lotan Design Studio, a designer clothing company. Biography Nili Shapira (later Lotan) was born in Netanya, Israel. Her father, Mosh ...

Notable faculty

Uri Tzaig Uri Tzaig (born 1965) is an Israeli artist. Tzaig was born in Qiryat Gat. Tzaig, who has a background in theater, works often in multimedia, video, and installations. In 1992, Tzaig graduated from the “School of Visual Theater” in Jerusal ...

Yigal Zalmona Yigal Zalmona ( he, יגאל צלמונה) is an Israeli curator, art critic and historian. He was the chief interdisciplinary curator of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, Israel.

Mel Rosenberg Mel Rosenberg (born Melvin Rosenberg, 12 November 1951 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada) is a microbiologist best known for his research on the diagnosis and treatment of bad breath (halitosis).

Faculties and Departments

Shenkar is accredited as an institution of higher education and is authorized to award the following degrees: *Engineering faculty (awards with B.Sc. or M.Sc. degree) ** Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering ** Bachelor of Science in

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** Bachelor of Science and Master of Science in Plastics Engineering ** Bachelor of Science in Chemical Engineering ** Bachelor of Science in

Electronics Engineering Electronics engineering is a sub-discipline of electrical engineering which emerged in the early 20th century and is distinguished by the additional use of active components such as semiconductor devices to amplify and control electric current f ...

*Department of Multidisciplinary Art **

Bachelor of Fine Arts A Bachelor of Fine Arts (BFA) is a standard undergraduate degree for students for pursuing a professional education in the visual, fine or performing arts. It is also called Bachelor of Visual Arts (BVA) in some cases. Background The Bachelor ...

in Multidisciplinary Art. *The Azrieli Faculty Of Design (awards with B.Des. degree or M.Des. Degree) ** Bachelor of Design in Textile Design ** Bachelor of Design in Fashion Design ** Bachelor of Design in Jewelry Design ** Bachelor of Design in

Industrial Design Industrial design is a process of design applied to physical Product (business), products that are to be manufactured by mass production. It is the creative act of determining and defining a product's form and features, which takes place in advan ...

** Bachelor of Design in Interior - Building and Environment Design ** Bachelor of Design in Visual Communication ** Master of Design in Design

References

External links

Shenkar College of Engineering and DesignShenkar School of Practical EngineeringShenkar's Flickr page. Contains some of the students' work and exhibits.TEDx Shenkar College
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