COURSE DESCRIPTION AND APPLICATION INFORMATION

Course Name Code Semester T+A+L (hour/week) Type (C / O) Local Credit ECTS
Product Design and Development INE 323 Fall 03+00+00 Elective 3 6
Academic Unit: Industrial Engineering
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Prerequisites: None
Language of Instruction: English
Level of Course Unit: Undergraduate
Course Coordinator: - -
Course Objectives: This course addresses the issues and approaches associated with product design and development. The topics include product planning, identifying the customer needs, concept development, prototyping and economics of product development. Students are expected to present a project in which they apply the product development steps. .
Course Contents: Product planning, identifying customer needs, prototype development, concept generation, quality function deployment (QFD), product development economics
Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit (LO):
  • 1- Learning the product development steps and analyzing customer needs
  • 2- Analyzing the requirements of production processes, the steps of quality function deployment, and the steps of concept development
  • 3- Conducting product development, economic analysis, and market analysis, and developing solution methods
Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods: Lecture notes and case studies


WEEKLY SUBJECTS AND RELATED PREPARATIONS

WeekSubjectsRelated Preperation
1 Introduction and Meeting Karl & Ulrich, 2008
2 Development Processes and Organizations Karl & Ulrich, 2008
3 Product Planning Karl & Ulrich, 2008
4 Identifying Customer Needs Karl & Ulrich, 2008
5 Product Specifications Karl & Ulrich, 2008
6 Concept Generation, Selection and Testing Karl & Ulrich, 2008
7 Concept Generation, Selection and Testing Karl & Ulrich, 2008
8 Product Architecture Karl & Ulrich, 2008
9 Industrial Design Karl & Ulrich, 2008
10 Design for Manufacturing Karl & Ulrich, 2008
11 Prototyping Karl & Ulrich, 2008
12 Patents and Intellectual Property Karl & Ulrich, 2008
13 Product Development Economics Karl & Ulrich, 2008
14 Project presentations


REQUIRED AND RECOMMENDED READING

Fundamentals of engineering economics, 2nd edition by Chan S. Park, Prentice Hall, 2008


OTHER COURSE RESOURCES



ASSESSMENT METHODS AND CRITERIA

Semester RequirementsNumberPercentage of Grade (%)
Attendance / Participation 14 -
Project 1 60
Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes 4 40
Total: 19 100


WORKLOAD

EventsCountDuration (Hours)Total Workload (hour)
Course Hours14342
Project16060
Midterms / Oral Exams / Quizes41248
Total Workload (hour):150


THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN COURSE LEARNING OUTCOMES (LO) AND PROGRAM QUALIFICATIONS (PQ)

# PQ1 PQ2 PQ3 PQ4 PQ5 PQ6 PQ7 PQ8 PQ9 PQ10 PQ11 PQ12 PQ13
LO1                          
LO2                          
LO3