IELM 317: Product Design and Development

Course Description
This course introduces theory and practice of the Product development process. Topics include: general principles of product design; introduction to the product development process; principles and practices of mechanical product design using moderns CAD systems; Rapid prototyping; etc.

Course objectives: After successful completion of this course, you will be able to:

• Become familiar with the IE techniques used in different stages of Product Lifecycle Management.
• Make and manage design teams for product development in a company.
• Make product family design decisions based on market analysis as well as engineering cost/feasibility analysis.
• Get insight on the functioning of modern CAD systems for mechanical design.
• Design complex product assemblies on a modern CAD system.

Course Vector: [2-0-3: 3]
Lectures: Fri 1:30pm-3:20am, Room 3416 Labs: Wed 1:30pm-4:20pm, Industrial Automation Lab, Rm 4223

Instructor: Ajay Joneja, Office: Room 5537; Phone: x7119, Email:joneja@ust.hk

TA's: Shawn Wang Qingqiang, Room 4223 Stephen Wang (grader), AMI Lab

Product Design, Kevin Otto and Kristin Wood , Prentice Hall
Ibrahim Zeid, CAD/CAD Theory and Practice, McGraw Hill, 1991
Martti Mantyla, Introduction to Solid Modeling, Computer Science press
G. Pahl, W. Beitz, Engineering Design , 2nd Edition, Springer
Joseph Shigley, et al., Mechanical Engineering Design , McGraw Hill
T. E. French, C. J. Vierck, Engineering Drawing, 12th Ed, McGraw Hill

Grading Policy:

Grading will be based on your scores in Exam I, Exam II, Labs, [Project ?], and Homeworks.
Exam I: 35%; Exam II: 35%; Homeworks: 10%; Labs: 20%

Link to Provisional grades

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Question Bank (past exam paper)
Exam paper from a previous year
Model solution to Exam paper of previous year

Exam II paper from a previous year