Advanced Engineering Design

3 credits · Graduate

An undergraduate education necessarily concentrates on analysis. This course focuses on synthesis. Creativity is the engine of design and analysis is the feedback governing design. Through the media of case studies, laboratory exercises, instruction, and practice, this course studies the process of design; the business of translating societal needs into real, manufacturable objects. Lecture topics will include: the hierarchical, iterative nature of design; aids to creativity; the appropriate use of analysis; the transformation from functional space to physical space; prototype design; consumer durable versus capital equipment design; and special lectures on microprocessors in machinery, optimization, and CAD/CAM.