Students will develop the following capabilities and skills through the course:
(1) Understanding of the concepts, processes, issues, and techniques of product design & development (PDD).
(2) Abilities to develop novel design concepts and ideas in a systematic manner.
(3) Skills of visualization, documentation, and presentation to effectively communicate ideas and findings of PDD.
(4) Application of the PDD knowledge set to real-world problems.
(5) Collaborative teamwork to achieve the goal of a PDD project by integrating diverse roles and skills of the team members.

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Attendance 10% (0.5% deduction per absence)
Homework 15%
Midterm 25%
Final 25%
Term Project 25%
TOTAL 100%

Week Lecture
1 Course introduction
2 Introduction to product design & development; Product dvelopment processes & organizations
3 Customer needs identification
4 Product specifications
5 Patent survey & analysis
6 Concept generation
7 Concept selection; Concept testing
8 Midterm
9 Product architecture
10 Prototyping
11 Design for manufacturing; Industrial & ergonomic design
12 Product development processes & organizations
13 Product planning
14 Product development economics; Project management
15 Robust design
16 Final

- Term project in group