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

Available soon

Evaluation method

Available soon

Subject matter

  • Development process
  • Opportunity identification
  • Product planning
  • Identifying customer needs
  • Product specifications
  • Concept generation
  • Concept selection
  • Concept testing
  • Design for X
  • Prototyping

Programs

Programs where the course is taught: