MAE 4630
Advanced Product Design
This hands-on course instructs on strategies to invent - make - and disseminate products that solve an identified need. These products can be consumer, enterprise, research, for profit or non-profit. The lectures will primarily be discussion based on assigned readings and tasks, and guest lectures from domain experts. This course combines lectures and field/lab activities on the new product development cycle: invention based on bioinspiration, iterative design based on customer discovery, team brainstorming, prototyping, testing/consumer feedback, and manufacturing innovation.
Topics
- Students will be able to experience the major impact of a human-centered design approach.
- Students will be able to understand the importance of managing interfaces between subsystems in prototype development.
- Students will be able to identify product platforms for mechanical design with commercial potential.
- Students will be able to gain appreciation of Intellectual Property in terms of design and utility.
Official roster learning outcomes
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027
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Catalogue variants
- Advanced Product Design · 3.0 · Undergraduate