Product Development Design
Objectives
This UC promotes teamwork, involve teachers from different fields, and is evaluated for competing performance and peer evaluation in teams. Together with the internship in a company, which happen later, will certainly add value to development of attitudes, useful both for further study and professional work.
To lead students from an idea to define the pertinence of it and to have the ability to develop a work that leads to the concretization that allows its functional evaluation.
General characterization
Code
12553
Credits
3.0
Responsible teacher
António José Freire Mourão
Hours
Weekly - 3
Total - 42
Teaching language
Português
Prerequisites
All UC before are recommendable.
Bibliography
Karl T. Ulrich, Steven D. Eppinger, “Product Design and Development”, McGraw-Hill, 2012, ISBN 978-0-07-340477-6.
Christopher A. Mattson, Carl D. Sorensen, “Product Development: Principles and Tools for Creating Desirable and Transferable Designs”. Springer Nature, 2019, ISBN 3030148998.
Teaching method
The projects and their materialization are carried out in class, to guarantee equality of means. In each class, students work in groups and instructions are given for carrying out the tasks corresponding to each stage of the project, according to the planning defined in the first class. Teachers introduce subjects relevant to each phase of the project, namely: project specifications; functional structure; principles for solutions; modular composition; decision making; conceptual design, detail design and final design. But classes are for interaction between the students of each group and the teachers, to clarify doubts and analyze proposals for partial solutions. As planned, the work development phases are concluded with presentations and discussion of alternative solutions, with an indication of the solution to proceed. For materialization the groups will have to present the manufacturing plan .
Evaluation method
- This UC has a laboratory nature; the work is carried out in groups in the classroom.
- Groups of 4 or 5 students are randomly formed;
- Attendance of at least 10 classes is a condition for taking the UC.
- An 80% portion of the evaluation is obtained by the performance of the model constructed considering measurable criteria established in the corresponding statement. These performances are analyzed in competition between teams, during the exam period.
- The remaining 20% of the evaluation covers aspects such as the aesthetics of the solution and the group''s work dynamics manifested throughout the semester. In this component of the assessment, the group''s students'' opinion on their performance has a contribution of 25%.
- Each group will indicate whether all elements have the same classification or whether there are individual penalties/increases and which ones. This differentiation can also be made by the teachers.
Subject matter
- Development process
- Opportunity identification
- Product planning
- Identifying customer needs
- Product specifications
- Concept generation
- Concept selection
- Concept testing
- Design for X
- Prototyping