MME8101 Product Design and Development

The course covers the activities undertaken and decisions made during the product development process that affects the ability to achieve efficient and effective production. The course further addresses the methods and approaches that can be used to make product development and production to work together in a cost-effective way for the holistic picture. 
 
Course Objectives 
The focus of Product Design and Development is integration of the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the firm in creating a new product. The course is intended to provide the student with the following benefits:  

• Competence with a set of tools and methods for product design and development. 
• Confidence in your own abilities to create a new product.  
• Awareness of the role of multiple functions in creating a new product (e.g. marketing, finance, industrial design, engineering, production).  
• Ability to coordinate multiple, interdisciplinary tasks in order to achieve a common objective.  
• Reinforcement of specific knowledge from other courses through practice and reflection in an action-oriented setting. Enhanced team working skills. 

 
Learning Outcomes 
After completing the course, the student shall: 
 
Knowledge and understanding 

• Demonstrate knowledge about and be able to describe the structure and content of the product development process. 
• Have knowledge of methods and approaches that are used during product development to analyze and improve a product's manufacturability 
• Have knowledge of cost management techniques used during the product development 

 
Skills and abilities 

• Demonstrate skills in describing and analyzing how various product development activities and decisions affect production 
• Demonstrate an ability to explain how the physical design of a product affects production 
• Demonstrate skills in describing the various factors that affect the interaction between product development and production 

 
Judgement and approach 

• Demonstrate the ability to relate a company's practical work to theories of collaboration between product development and production 
• Demonstrate the ability as a group member to perform and present project and seminar assignments, both orally and in writing and to critically and constructively provide feedback on such presentations.