ME 382
INTRODUCTION TO DESIGN

Course Description

This course provides a team project-based, hands-on discovery experience of developing prototype products through a well-organized engineering design process including planning, problem definition, concept design, product design/realization, and testing. Design processes and methods are introduced through lectures; the processes and methods are applied in a design project in Design Studio.

Topics

• Open-ended, team-based problem solving
  
• Design problem appraisal and project planning
  
• Concept generation/ evaluation
  
• Product Generation/ evaluation
• Design for manufacture and assembly
  
• Sustainable assembly
  
• Real world products
  
• Development

Learning Outcomes

The student, upon completion of this course, will be able to:

• Apply Gantt Chart techniques to identify project deliverables and make a 10-week work plan for a small-scale engineering design team project.
• State and illustrate the quality function deployment (QFD) method by using QFD to define an open-ended engineering design problem.
  
• Generate and evaluate conceptual design solutions using functional analysis and prototype testing given a design problem definition.
  
• Produce a product that meets functional requirements.
  
• Produce a product with originality, regulatory, and aesthetic considerations.
  
• Perform as part of an engineering design team.