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Product Design (Spring 2005)

Course code : MPRODES-U2
ECTS Credits : 20 Status : Optional
Revised : 19/08 2003 Written : 20/09 2002
Placement : 6. semester Hours per week : 0
Length : 1 semester Teaching Language : English

Objective : To provide engineering students with insight regarding the process of designing a product using visualising and prototyping tools and to provide knowledge about the phases and elements of product development.
By communicating with industrial designers and design students, the engineering student’s awareness of design issues will be broadened.
These issues may include choice of materials, appearance parameters, such as proportion, shape, colour and texture, and other relevant demands which must be met when designing a product with a distinct identity.
Principal Content : Initially, students will follow a two-week course giving a short introduction to Concept Development and presentation as well as modelling and sketching techniques.
After this course the design subject will be introduced:
Based on specified requirements, students will establish the Product Specifications for a technical component in a product series. During this period, lectures relating to product development as a marketing variable, integrated product development and information search will be given.

During the semester, students will design a component based on the Product Specifications.
After the initial (hand-) sketching and research period, computerised 3D visualising tools for preparation of presentation material and production drawings will be used. Stereo lithography (SLA), CNC, reverse engineering and casting techniques will be used for rapid prototyping. Relevant courses with practice will be arranged during the semester.

The Product Design course will be supervised by engineering and design instructors during weekly consultations.
Teaching method : Lectures, courses, practice and supervision. Course work in groups of 4-5 students, each group consisting of engineering students and one or two affiliated design students from The School of Architecture in Copenhagen.
Required prequisites : -
Recommended prerequisites : -
Relations : Manufacturing Technology, Materials, Automation and Robot Technology
Type of examination : Look under remarks
External examiner : External
Marking : Scale of 13
Remarks : Group report and formal presentation
Teaching material : Cross, Nigel: Engineering Design Methods 3rd ed. John Wiley and Sons.
Ulrich, K.T. and Eppinger, S.D.: Product Design and Development 2nd ed.
McGraw-Hill. 2000.
Kalpakjian, S: Manufacturing Engineering and Technology, ISBN 0-201-36131 – 0
Callister William: Materials Science and Engineering
Responsible teacher : Franz Primdahl , fpr@ihk.dk