Product Design and Development

Lecture Topics:

Date Topic
Sept 3 Classification and examples (PPT)
Sept 10 Design Process and Tools (PPT)
Sept 17 Traditional design representation: drafting, projections (PPT)
Sept 24 Functional design: fits and tolerances (PPT)
Oct 8 Solid models: CSG, BRep, Surface models (PPT)
Oct 15 CAD operators: transformations (PPT)
Oct 22 CAD Operators: extrude, sweep (PPT)
Oct 29 CAD Operators: fillet, ... (PPT)
Nov 5 Curves in CAD systems: Ferguson, Hermite, Bezier (PPT)
Nov 12 Curves in CAD: Bezier (PPT)
Nov 19 Surfaces in CAD: Bezier (PPT)
Nov 26 Surfacer operations in CAD: introduction (PPT)
Dec 3 Make up, Review, Discussions


Reading Assignments

These are relevant topics on Product Design taught in other courses in our Dept. If you did not learn them before, these notes will be useful.

Design Principles: Design for Manufacture/Assembly

Design Principles: Quality Function Deployment

Design Principles: Robust Design

Robust Design: Analysis