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 Academic Year: | 2016/7 |
| Owning Department/School: | Department of Mechanical Engineering |
| Credits: | 6 [equivalent to 12 CATS credits] |
| Notional Study Hours: | 120 |
| Level: | Masters UG & PG (FHEQ level 7) |
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| Assessment Summary: | CW 50%, EX 50% |
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| Description:
| Aims: * To provide an introduction into international product development context (Industry 4.0, globalization, democratisation of innovation, design, and manufacture). * To provide an in-depth understanding of a systematic engineering design process with a focus on integrated product & process planning and management (Pahl & Beitz, QFD, KANO). * To introduce a number of innovation techniques, such as open engineering systems, product platforms, mass customisation, TRIZ, and design thinking. * To provide a holistic picture of how systems engineering, industrial design, and engineering design act in concert to create true innovations. Learning Outcomes: After successfully completing this unit the student will be able to : * Explain emerging paradigm shifts with respect to innovation and advanced design and estimate associated Technology Readiness Levels. * Describe the economics of product development, and the impact of time and cost overruns. * Apply a design process to the development of new products, product variants, emerging product-service-systems, or bespoke design processes. * Analyse the processes of innovation and use a number of innovation methods and techniques. Describe the concept of open engineering systems and apply it to the modelling of product platforms. Skills: Critical thinking; Identifying and solving problems; IT; working independently and in teams; written communication; learning how to learn. Content: 21st century product development context; product lifecycle analyses; interfaces between systems engineering, industrial and engineering design; designing a design process; functional analysis; quality function deployment and requirements assessment; open engineering systems; mass customisation; modularity and product architectures; rapid and accelerated product development strategies; technology readiness levels (TRLs); the innovation space; creativity, TRIZ, inventive principles; emerging social product development paradigms (mass collaboration, crowd sourcing, crowd funding); design thinking and hunting for the next big thing; topics for course-related personalised learning. |
| Programme availability: |
ME40049 is Compulsory on the following programmes:Department of Mechanical Engineering
ME40049 is Optional on the following programmes:Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering
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