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Product Design syllabus

Dr. Husam Arman

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Outline

Our CV briefly What about you? Ground rules Syllabus ….

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Our CV’s

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What about you?

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Ground rules 1. Please switch off/silent our phones when in

class. 2. Arrive on time3. Keep our presentations to agreed upon

lengths4. In general be courteous to others 5. ….

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Syllabus

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ILO’s

• Become competence with a set of tools and methods for product design and development.

• Confident in own abilities to create a new product.• Able to coordinate multiple, interdisciplinary tasks

in order to achieve a common objective.• Reinforce of specific knowledge from other courses

through practice and reflection in an action-oriented setting.

• Enhance team working skills

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Major topics • Development Processes and Organizations• Product Planning• Identifying Customer Needs• Product Specifications• Concept generation, selection and testing• Product Architecture• Industrial Design• Design for Manufacturing• Prototyping• Patents and Intellectual Property• Product Development Economics8/23/2009

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References• Text book: Ulrich, Karl, and Steven Eppinger.

Product Design and Development. 3rd ed. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2004

• Additional references; – Cooper, R.G., Edgett, S.J. and Kleinschmidt, E.J. (2005).

Portfolio Management for New Products. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley

– Ullman, David G. (2010) The Mechanical Design Process, Mc Graw-Hill

– Norman (2002) The Design Of Everyday Things, Basic Books

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Grading policy

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Midterm Exam 25%

Project 35%

Final Exam 40%

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Why is it different?

• The first time to be taught in the IE department

• More than one lecturer • This is a hands-on, project-based course, and

you will be expected to both write something and do something

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