INSE 6411
Product Design Theory and Methodology
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.
- W. Chen, C. Hoyle and H.J. Wassenaar, Decision-Based Design: Integrating Consumer Preferences into Engineering Design, Springer, 2012.
- G. Pahl and W. Beitz, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach, Springer, 1998.
- N. Suh, The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, 1990.
- G.S. Altshuller, Creativity as an Exact Science, Gordon and Breach, 1988.
- V. Hubka and W. Eder, Theory of Technical Systems, Springer, 1988.
- George E. Dieter, Engineering Design: A Materials and Processing Approach, 3rd ed., McGraw-Hill.
- 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 textbook; requirement not explicitly stated: David G. Ullman, The Mechanical Design Process, 3rd ed.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027
- Syllabus or course outline ↗Winter 2019