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INSE 6411

Product Design Theory and Methodology

4 credits · Graduate

Winter 2019

Topics

  • Design-process planning
  • Product development
  • Opportunity identification
  • Customer needs
  • Product specifications
  • Concept generation
  • Design conflicts
  • Concept evaluation and selection
  • Concept testing
  • Design for manufacture and assembly
  • Prototyping
  • Intellectual property
  • Product-development economics

Readings

  • K. Lewis, W. Chen and L.C. Schmidt, Decision Making in Engineering Design, ASME, 2006.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • W. Chen, C. Hoyle and H.J. Wassenaar, Decision-Based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design, Springer, 2012.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • G. Pahl and W. Beitz, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach, Springer, 1998.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • N. Suh, The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, 1990.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • G.S. Altshuller, Creativity as an Exact Science, Gordon and Breach, 1988.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • V. Hubka and W. Eder, Theory of Technical Systems, Springer, 1988.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • George E. Dieter, Engineering Design: A Materials and Processing Approach, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill.
    Recommended / optional / reference
  • Listed textbook; requirement not explicitly stated: Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill, 2012 (main textbook).
    Listed reading
  • Listed textbook; requirement not explicitly stated: David G. Ullman, The Mechanical Design Process, 3rd ed.
    Listed reading
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