"Product Design & Development" is a project-based course, which challenges students to design a new product and to produce a prototype version of it. This OCW site includes Lecture Notes in PDF format, Project Examples and Guidelines for Projects. The textbook, Product Design and Development, was co-written by Professor Steven Eppinger (see http://www.ulrich-eppinger.net/ for more information). We are also using Value Engineering: A Plan for Invention by Richard Park.

Covers modern tools and methods for product design and development. The cornerstone is a project in which teams of management, engineering, and industrial design students conceive, design, and prototype a physical product. Class sessions are conducted in workshop mode and employ cases and hands-on exercises to reinforce the key ideas. Topics include identifying customer needs, concept generation, product architecture, industrial design, Quality Function Deployment, Value Engineering, TRIZ (The Theory Of Invention), Failure Modes and Effects Analysis and design-for-manufacturing.