Engineering Design: Methods and Tools - WGUS1024

Goal(s)

the objectives of the course are to develop competencies in use, analysis of key design and product developement tools used in engineering design.
the cours focus on key methods and tools used to ensure quality and performance of engineering design processes.
focus is not on product specific technology even if product studies are manufactured and assembled products.

At the end of the course student should be able to :

• understand and analyse organization of a product development process
• formalise and model user requirements into functional model and design specification
• Analyse and propose product architecture
• Improve assemblability of manufactured product.
• Analyze product cost and organize cost reduction action.

while the course aims to develop practical skills about engineering tools the student will be asked to develop also theoretical knowledge about current research in product design.

Content(s)

the course will use a product as case study to illustrate and manipulate studied tools

Group work will be asked to analyse the product and eventually propose modification or

topics
introduction to Product design and development process
product development tools

• from user to specification
  • Product requirements formalisation
  • user centred design
• Product architecture
  • modularity and plateform
  • Design sturctured matrix (product)
• Design for assembly and other Dfx
• Design to cost
  • product cost analysis
  • value analysis

introduction to product design processes organization and performance

• lean product development
• system Engineering

bachelor in Engineering sciences

intriduction to engineering design

Test

Semester 1 - The exam is given in english only 

Continuous assessment (CC) : 60%
(PW) personnal work, reading, exercise, personal contribution within lectures (10%)
(GW) Group work : project, case study individual or group work (50%)

Exam : QUIZZ or writen exam. 40%

E1 = Final oral or written exam from the 1st exam period
E2 = Final oral or written exam from the 2nd exam period

N1 = Final mark from the 1st exam period
N2 = Final mark from the 2nd exam period

N1 = CC PW*0,1 + CCGW*0,5 + 0,4 E1

N2 = E2

Additional Information

Semester 1 - This course is given in english only 

Bibliography

Main textbooks

• Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger
  Product Design and Development FIFth Edition McGraw-Hill 2008)
• Daniel E. Whitney Mechanical Assemblies: Their Design, Manufacture, and Role in Product Development, Volume 1 Oxford University Press 2004 - 517 pages
  Mital, A. (2008). Product development?: a structured approach to consumer product development, design, and manufacture (p. 425). Amsterdam?; Boston, MA: Butterworth-Henemann, An imprint of Elsevier, cop.

to go further

Meyer H, M., & Lenherd, A. P. (1997). The Power of Product Platform. free Press.
Pahl, G., Beitz, W., Wallace, K., Blessing, L., & Bauert, F. (1996). Engineering design a systematic approach, . second edition Springer .
Pruitt, J., & Adlin, T. (2006). The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design . (E. Inc., Ed.). Morgan Kaufmann .
Ullman, D. G. (1992). The mechanical design process. Mc graw-Hill.

main course ressources
(Mital, 2008; Ulrich & Eppinger, 2004; Whitney, 2004)
To go further
(Baldwin & Clark, 2000; Brenda, 2003; Brown, 2008; Meyer H & Lenherd, 1997; Pruitt & Adlin, 2006; Ullman, 1992)

• Baldwin, C. Y., & Clark, K. B. (2000). Design rules, The power of modularity (Vol. 1). MIT press.
• Brenda, L. (2003). Design Research methods and perspectives. MIT press .
• Brown, T. (2008). Design Thinking. Harvard Business Review, (June).
• Meyer H, M., & Lenherd, A. P. (1997). The Power of Product Platform. free Press.
• Mital, A. (2008). Product development?: a structured approach to consumer product development, design, and manufacture (p. 425). Amsterdam?; Boston, MA: Butterworth-Henemann, An imprint of Elsevier, cop.
• Pruitt, J., & Adlin, T. (2006). The Persona Lifecycle: Keeping People in Mind Throughout Product Design . (E. Inc., Ed.). Morgan Kaufmann .
• Ullman, D. G. (1992). The mechanical design process. Mc graw-Hill.
• Ulrich, K. T., & Eppinger, S. D. (2004). Product Design and Development (Vol. Third edit). McGraw-Hill.
• Whitney, D. E. (2004). Mechanical Assemblies: Their Design, Manufacture, and Role in Product Development. Oxford: Oxford University Press.