34835 - Design Methods for Industrial Engineering (2nd cycle)

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Blended Learning
  • Campus: Forli
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Mechanical Engineering (cod. 8771)

Course contents

PART I – METHODS FOR CONCEPTUAL DESIGN

From Planning to product architecture

•Conceptual design for industrial products User centred Design - Design for X•Identification of customer's needs and product specifications • Concept generation and concept selection methods
• Product Architecture
• Innovation in Product Design

Project Management Principles

PARTEII – Prototyping

• Industrial Prototyping for product development
• Geometric Modelling
• Reverse Engineering
• Rapid Prototyping
• Virtual Reality

Readings/Bibliography

Leture notes provided on-line.

Ulrich K.T., Eppinger S. D., “Product Design and Development“,Mc Graw Hill.

Teaching methods

Class lectures. Case studies interactive analisys. Computer based training with Computer Aided Industrial Design tools. Lab demnstrations.

Seminars. Freequency is recommended. Some classes will be held exclusively on line.

Assessment methods

Students will be divided in group and will develop a project work.

Design project presentation. Questions on theoretical aspects of design methods.

Teaching tools

Reverse Engineering Systems (Laser and CMM Coordinate Measuring Machines)

Software CAID(Computer Aided Industrial Design) for NURBS Modelling;

Software for Reverse Engineering;

Rapid Prototyping systems (FDM and Polyjet) and Softwares.

Virtual and Augmented Reality Tools.

Office hours

See the website of Francesca De Crescenzio