| 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) | 80 20 |
| Grading Scheme (%): | Homework Group Projects Other (specify) - Attendance at group meetings
- Class participation
| 20 65 5 10 |
