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Innovation and Design of Products
Code
ME-IDP1
Version
6.0
Offered by
Mechanical Engineering
ECTS
5
Prerequisites
The course is for students from the 6th semester or equivalent in an attempt to enhance their product design and development skills from the end user and business perspectives.
The student is required to be familiar with basic engineering skills within the areas of 1) Materials and material processing technologies; 2) Design methods including technical drawing; 3) Basic business economics and teamwork.
The course also welcomes students with qualifications in the fields of industrial design, marketing, or similar.
Main purpose
The main purpose of the course is to strengthen student’s acquaintance with engineering procedures within the development and assessment of mechanical products from both re-design and conceptual design perspectives. Stage-Gate will be used to create innovative products.
Knowledge
Upon the completion of the course, the student will acquire knowledge:
- To define human-centered design.
- To describe user experience (UX) design methods.
- To describe interaction design principles
- To identify the fundamental aspects of good product design.
- To find, characterize and select the most relevant methods/ tools for user needs identification, acquisition and interpretation.
- To identify and choose between different design approaches.
- To define and formulate customer value proposition.
- To define project economy
- To reason system interconnectedness exploration is essential in Human-Centered Design
Skills
Upon the completion of the course, the student will be able:
- To apply User Experience (UX) design methods and Interaction design principles throughout a design project.
- To use engineering design methods to develop products.
- To implement correctly the selected methods/tools to achieve their designated goals for data analysis/synthesis for the product design.
- To relate, evaluate, and reason the key findings derived from the various undertaken analyses and syntheses.
- To identify and translate user pains and value proposition to product design requirements.
- To implement innovative thinking to reflect on design solutions and to reframe design problems.
Competences
Upon completion, the student will be familiar with and be able to implement the State gate model to start, plan, innovate, and complete a design project to a conceptual level by taking into account the relevant multiple aspects including user experience and product innovation.
Topics
Teaching methods and study activities
The student shall expect 138 hours of workload distributed across various study activities including lectures, group work, workshops and design projects.
There will be 3 lessons per week for 12 weeks. Pre-lesson preparation, if assigned, is required.
Ongoing prototype making and testing is necessary for progressive feedback.
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Evaluation
Examination
Prerequisites for exam:
None
Exam type:
Exam is based upon the IDP-report (2 pages + visualization of product, in English) submitted in WISEflow before deadline.
The group presents their prototype. The exam room can be customized by the group to support the presentation.
Group exam with individual assessment.
Group presentation approx. 15 minutes followed by joint evaluation with joint discussion and individual question rounds (10 minutes per student including assessment). Max examination time is 60 minutes per group including assessment.
Individual grades are given based on an overall assessment of the submitted work as well as the individual's presentation during the exam.
Internal assessment.
Tools allowed:
All
Re-exam:
Based on the submitted project, the examiner gives the student guidance on necessary improvements in relation to passing the exam (possibly, that a new project should be prepared). The students are informed about specific deadlines and details of the project work. Project groups are formed if possible. No further guidance is provided in the period leading up to submission. The project is assessed at an oral project exam.
Grading criteria
Additional information
Responsible
Christian Sommer / Jakob Matias Pope
Valid from
8/1/2025 12:00 AM
Course type
Business and Management<br/>
Keywords
Design Methods, Engineering design methods, Stage-Gate, Prototyping,