Syllabus

Characteristics of successful product development, Design and development of products, duration and cost of product development, the challenges of product development, Development Processes and Organizations, A generic development process, concept development, Product Planning, Identifying Customer Needs, Gather raw data from customers, interpret raw data in terms of customer needs, organize the needs into a hierarchy, establish the relative importance of the needs and reflect on the results and the process. Product Specifications, Concept Generation, Concept Selection, Product Architecture, Industrial Design, Design for Manufacturing, Prototyping, Product Development Economics, Managing Projects.

Nurturing of the feel of design and development of a real product

The course is designed to help students to achieve the following outcomes
• Attentiveness on design requirements and its factors those influence in practice
• Ability to evaluate the design in aesthetics point of view and develop the concept models

• Karl T. Ulrich, Steven D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development, McGrawHill

• A. C. Chitale and R. C. Gupta, Product Design and Manufacturing, PHI

• Timjones. Butterworth Heinmann, New Product Development, Oxford, UCI

• Geoffery Boothroyd, Peter Dewhurst and Winston Knight, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, CRC Press

Ergonomics in Design, Applied Ergonomics

International Conference on Research into Design