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 (Fall 2003, Fall 2004)
References: S. Pugh, Total Design: Integrated Methods for Successful Product Engineering, Addison-Wesley, 1991.

Goals:

Prerequisites by topics:

Course Requirements:

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
Delivery mode (%):
Lecture 
80 
Laboratory
Supervised
Unsupervied
Discussion
Seminar
Independent Study
Demonstration
Other (specify)
Group Meetings
20
Grading Scheme (%):
Homework 
20 
Individual Projects
Group Projects
65 
Exams
Other (specify)
Attendance at group meetings   5
Class participation             10

   
 
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Revised June 2004