ME 7101 Seminar in Engineering Design

ME 7101: Seminar in Engineering Design
Offered as Required

Credit Hours:	3-0-3
Prerequisites:	ME 6101 or equivalent, or with the consent of the instructor
Catalog Description:	Reading from the literature, student presentations, and discussions on current theories and methods in engineering design.
Textbook:	None
Instructor:	Jonathan Colton (ME)

: Goals:; This course will provide students with the opportunity for in-depth readings and discussion on various theories of design. Students will read articles from the design literature and critically analyze design theories and methods. They will make presentations on the readings and lead class discussions.
Prerequisites by topics:

Topics:

Yoshikawa's General Design Theory
Pahl and Beitz' Systematic Design
Suh's Axiomatic Design
Hubka and Eder's Theory of Technical Systems
Petroski's Design Pardigms
French's work on design and natural analogies
Koen's Definition of the Engineering Method
Altshuller's Creativity as an Exact Science
Taguchi on Robust Quality
Pugh's Total Design and Concept Selection Method
Deming's work on Quality
Quality Function Deployment

Delivery mode (%):

Lecture
Laboratory
Discussion	30
Seminar (by students)	70
Independent Study
Demonstration
Other (specify)

Grading Scheme (%):

Homework
Individual Projects
Group Projects
Exams
Other (specify)
Group presentations	40
Individual papers	60

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Revised July 2004