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Product Design (Project) (Spring 2011)

Course code : MIPRD-U1
ECTS Credits : 15 Status : Optional
Revised : 09/03 2011 Written : 16/07 2007
Placement : 6. semester Hours per week : 25
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 have introduction to project management.

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.

The Product Design course will be supervised by both an engineering and a design instructors during weekly consultations.
Teaching method : Lecture and tutorial
Required prequisites : -
Recommended prerequisites : -
Relations : -
Type of examination : Oral examination based on a project
External examiner : External
Marking : 7 step scale
Remarks : -
Teaching material : -
Responsible teacher : Anke Pasold , apas@dtu.dk