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ME 6101: Engineering Design
Offered Every Fall
| Credit Hours: |
3-0-3 |
| Prerequisites: |
Graduate standing in engineering or related discipline |
| Catalog Description: |
Design concepts, processes, and methodologies including quality and robustness. Group project. |
| Textbooks: |
G. Pahl, Wolfgang Beitz, Ken Wallace, L. Blessing, and F. Bauert, Engineering Design, Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, 1996. |
| Instructors: |
Jonathan Colton; Farrokh Mistree |
| References: |
S. Pugh, Total Design: Integrated Methods for Successful Product Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1991. |
| Course Requirements: |
- Group project
- Individual homework
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| Topics: |
- Product Definition:
- Market Identification and Analysis
- User Needs
- Quality Function Deployment, House of Quality (including computer tools)
- Product Design Specification
- Team and Project Management:
- 7 Management and Planning Tools (including computer tools)
- Team leadership and membership (organizations)
- Project management (sequential, concurrent)
- Design Phases (and their principles) within Pahl and Beitz:
- Conceptual Design
- Embodiment Design
- Detail Design
- Other Design Tools and Methods:
- Idea generation and search techniques
- Decision making (concept evaluation and selection)
- Axiomatic Design
- Design for Manufacture
- Safety/ Machine Guarding
- TQM techniques:
- Design of Experiments
- Taguchi Methods
- Legal and Ethical Issues:
- Ethics
- Liability
- Patents
- Standards and codes OSHA
- ANSI, ASTM, ASME
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| Delivery mode (%): |
Lecture
Other (specify)
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80
20 |
| Grading Scheme (%): |
Homework
Group Projects
Other (specify)
- Attendance at group meetings
- Class participation
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20
65
5
10 |
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