Prerequisite: NIL
Background
and introduction: Importance of engineering design, life cycle
of a
product, engineering design process.
Overview of engineering
design process: Steps involved in the design
process, communication during the design process, team behavior and
tools, Delta design exercise.
Identification
and understanding of customer needs: Requirements capture,
development of product design specifications, quality function
deployment (QFD) technique, case studies in QFD.
Concept generation:
Generating engineering
specifications, functional analysis
and design, concept generation methods, creativity and problem
solving, creativity method, creative idea evaluation, TRIZ, axiomatic
design.
Concept evaluation:
Information representation, concept evaluation
overview, evaluation techniques based on 1) feasibility judgment, 2)
GO-NO-GO screening, 3) technological readiness, 4) basic decision
matrix (Pugh’s Method).
Cost estimation: Cost
categories, methods of cost estimation,
cost
indices, cost capacity factors, activity based costing, learning
curve.
Economic decision making:
Time value of money, cost comparison,
profitability of investment, sensitivity and break even analysis.
Professionalism
and ethics: Laws, contracts, liabilities, intellectual
property, professional behavior, ethics.
Texts and
references:
G. E. Dieter, Engineering design: a materials and processing approach, McGraw Hill International Series, 2000.
D. G. Ullman, Mechanical design process, McGraw Hill, 2004.
K. T. Ulrich and S. D. Eppinger, Product design and development, Irwin McGraw Hill, 2000.
R. Eide, R. D. Jenison, L. H. Marshaw, L. R. Northup, Introduction to engineering design, McGraw Hill Basic Engineering Series and Tools, 1998.