Shenkar College of Engineering, Design and Art (commonly abbreviated as Shenkar) is a public

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. 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

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(formerly Industrialists' Union in The Land of Israel) and a pioneer in the Israeli textile industry. Shenkar has three faculties: Multidisciplinary Art,

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and

Engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

. Shenkar faculties offer four-year

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degrees, taught in Hebrew. The design and the engineering faculties offer

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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 Fine Arts,

design A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product, or process. The verb ''to design' ...

and

engineering Engineering is the use of scientific principles to design and build machines, structures, and other items, including bridges, tunnels, roads, vehicles, and buildings. The discipline of engineering encompasses a broad range of more speciali ...

. The school, in cooperation with Israel's

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and National Institute for Technological Training, operates a Practical Engineering school, which is located in

Tel Aviv Tel Aviv-Yafo ( he, תֵּל־אָבִיב-יָפוֹ, translit=Tēl-ʾĀvīv-Yāfō ; ar, تَلّ أَبِيب – يَافَا, translit=Tall ʾAbīb-Yāfā, links=no), often referred to as just Tel Aviv, is the most populous city in the ...

, 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

, 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

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(approximately 800 meters from the main campus) and was formerly utilized as the ' Elite building'. *Shenkar's research facilities: **Rose Archive for Textiles and Costumes **Kadar Design and Technology Center **The Edelstein Center for the Analysis of Ancient Artifacts **The Joe Weinstein Center for Research in Medical Textiles **Textile Testing Laboratories **Design Research Center **Rapid Prototype Center ** Nanotechnology Center **Center for Nonwovens **Green Design & Technologies *Other facilities are: **The Shenkar Forum for Culture and Society ** CIM Laboratory **The Sidney & Anita Bernstein

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Student union

Shenkar's Student Association is an independent, self-governing student body. Members also belong to the National Union of Israeli Students 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 * Alber Elbaz * Hila Klein * Nili Lotan

Notable faculty

* Uri Tzaig * Yigal Zalmona * Mel Rosenberg

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 A Bachelor of Science (BS, BSc, SB, or ScB; from the Latin ') is a bachelor's degree awarded for programs that generally last three to five years. The first university to admit a student to the degree of Bachelor of Science was the University o ...

Software Engineering Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...

in Industrial Engineering and Management **

and

Master of Science A Master of Science ( la, Magisterii Scientiae; abbreviated MS, M.S., MSc, M.Sc., SM, S.M., ScM or Sc.M.) is a master's degree in the field of science awarded by universities in many countries or a person holding such a degree. In contrast t ...

Plastics Engineering Plastics engineering encompasses the processing, design, development, and manufacture of plastics products. A plastic is a polymeric material that is in a semi-liquid state, having the property of plasticity and exhibiting flow. Plastics engineer ...

Chemical Engineering Chemical engineering is an engineering field which deals with the study of operation and design of chemical plants as well as methods of improving production. Chemical engineers develop economical commercial processes to convert raw materials int ...

in Electronics Engineering *Department of Multidisciplinary Art ** Bachelor of Fine Arts in Multidisciplinary Art. *The Azrieli Faculty Of Design (awards with B.Des. degree or M.Des. Degree) **

Bachelor of Design A Bachelor of Design (B.Des. or B.Design) degree is usually an undergraduate academic degree in the field of design awarded for a course or major that generally lasts three or four years. It is the undergraduate equivalent of the Master of Design, ...

in Textile Design **

Fashion Design Fashion design is the art of applying design, aesthetics, clothing construction and natural beauty to clothing and its accessories. It is influenced by culture and different trends, and has varied over time and place. "A fashion designer creates ...

Jewelry Design Jewellery design is the art or profession of designing and creating jewellery. This is one of civilization's earliest forms of decoration, dating back at least 7,000 years to the oldest known human societies in Indus Valley Civilization, Mesopo ...

in Industrial Design **

in Interior - Building and Environment Design **

in Visual Communication **

Master of Design A Master of Design (MDes, M.Des. or M.Design) is a postgraduate academic master degree in the field of Design awarded by several academic institutions around the world. The degree level has different equivalencies; some MDes are equivalent to Master ...

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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