0910433
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Spring 2001
Catalog
Description
This
course introduces students to the design of systems from the Design for X
perspective.
Design for X teaches how to deal with conflicting and ever increasing
number of constraints in the design process. It teaches the students to adopt
a systematic design approach that address issues related to manufacture,
assembly, environment, reliability and other factors from concept design stage
to product manufacture.
Syllabus:
Download
course syllabus here
Textbook
Product
Design and Development, 2nd Edition, Karl T. Ulrich and Steven
D. Eppinger, McGraw Hill, 2000.
Additional
Supplies
Purchase
a new one or dust off your old Engineering Lab Notebook, it will be
used extensively in this class.
Instructor
Anthony
J. Marchese, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Department
of Mechanical Engineering
College
of Engineering
Rowan
University
201 Mullica Hill Road
Glassboro, NJ 08028-1701
Office: 235 Rowan Hall
Email address: marchese@rowan.edu
Telephone: (856) 256-5343
Fax:
(856) 256-5241
Office Hours
Tuesday: 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Course
Website
engineering.rowan.edu/~marchese/dfx
Textbook
Website
www.ulrich-eppinger.net
Other
Useful Links
IBM
Patent Server
Handbook
for Inventors
Intellectual
property links provided by the Lemelson Foundation
US
Patent Office
Design
of the Week!
Week
1: The Underwood
#5 Typewriter
Week
2: Dean Kamen's Ginger
http://www.dynopower.freeserve.co.uk/homepages/newchair.htm
http://www.inventors.about.com/science/inventors/library/inventors/blkamen.htm
http://www.wirednews.com/wired/archive/8.09/kamen_pr.html
Week 3: The
Becton-Dickinson Digital Thermometer
Week 5: The
In-Line Skate
Week 6: The
Minox Camera
Week 7: The
Personal Computer
Week 7: Design
of the Week Image 2
Design
of the Week Image 1
Week 11: The
Motorola StarTAC
Week 12: The
Honda Insight
Week 13: The
Bar Code Reader
Additional
Readings
(Available from the Instructor):
Bryant,
J. L. Protecting Your Ideas: The Inventor’s Guide to Patents, Academic
Press, 1999.
Boothroyd,
Dewhurst and Knight, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, Marcel
Dekker, 1994.
Billatos
and Basaly, Green Technology and Design for the Environment, Taylor and
Francis, 1997.
Otto
and Wood, Product Design: Techniques in Reverse Engineering and New Product
Development, Prentice Hall, 2001.
Albus,
Kras and Woodham, Icons of Design: The 20th Century, Prestel,
2000.
Ulman,
The Mechanical Design Process, 2nd Edition, McGraw Hill, 1997.
Technical
Objectives
Upon
completion of this course, each student will be able to:
§
design
for manufacture,
§
design
for assembly,
§
design
for disassembly,
§
design
for recyclablity,
§
design
for environment,
§
design
for aesthetics,
§
design
for performance,
§
design
for ergonomics, etc.
-
Identify
and prioritize different Design for X objectives
-
Consider
Design for X requirements from
conceptual design stage onwards.
-
Develop
and analyze a real product from Design for X perspective and evaluate
alternative designs.
Grading
Policy
Homework,
Class Participation and one-page essays (30%).
Collaborative in-class quizzes, problems, experiments will be done each
week.
Each week, a “design of the week” will be presented at the beginning
of class and you will be asked to write a reflective essay on it.
Midterm
Design for X Report (35%). An independent midterm project will be due
approximately half-way through the semester.
Final
Group Project (35%).
A semester long product development project will be the major effort of
this class.
The results of your final product development team will count as 35% of
your final grade.
Attendance
Policy
Attendance
at each class is required.
If you cannot make it to class, you must contact me prior to class.
Missing more than 6 classes is grounds for failure.
Senioritus?
Don’t even think about it!
You know I love you guys…but don't blow off this class!
If you get an F in this class, you do not graduate.
Course
Outline
Last updated: March 27, 2001
