Entry requirements

45 credits within engineering programs, including Computer Aided Design/3D CAD. Engineering Materials, Machine Elements, Mechanics HI, Manufacturing Methodologies shall have been attended.

Learning outcomes

The course provides the student with a comprehensive view of the product development process, including basic skills in sketch techniques and understanding the importance of design as well as deeper skills in working with computer aided design.

On completion of the course, the student should be able to:

• describe the product development process and account for its conditions and terms, and use the most common methods of managing terms and concept development,
• use basic sketching techniques to communicate ideas,
• plan, implement and present a design project,
• use a CAD-software to design products with moving parts and with the help of top-down methodology,
• create advanced solid and surface models,
• produce realistic images and simple animations of a product,
• use a PDM/PLM-system to design products.

Content

Industrial product development. The process of product development. Product planing. Managing customer and technical specifications. Concept development and concept selection. Product architecture.

Sketching techniques: freehand drawing, perspective, sketching and editing. Applied design with model building. Advanced solid modeling and surface modeling in 3D-CAD. Simulation of mechanical movement, animation, photo rendering, top-down-design and generating drawings. Applied work with PDM/PLM-system. The software used is SolidWorks with associated modules.

Instruction

Lectures, exercises, assignments, seminars and project work.

Assessment

Assigments, seminars, practical exam and project work. Sub-credits are given for sketch techniques and applied design (3 credits), computer aided product development and design (3 credits), assigments (2 credits) and theoretical seminars (2 credit).

If there are special reasons for doing so, an examiner may make an exception from the method of assessment indicated and allow a student to be assessed by another method. An example of special reasons might be a certificate regarding special pedagogical support from the disability coordinator of the university.