ME 310C: Project-Based Engineering Design, Innovation, and Development
Three quarter sequence; for engineering graduate students intending to lead projects related to sustainability, automotive, biomedical devices, communication, and user interaction. Student teams collaborate with academic partners in Europe, Asia, and Latin America on product innovation challenges presented by global corporations to design requirements and construct functional prototypes for consumer testing and technical evaluation. Design loft format such as found in Silicon Valley consultancies. Typically requires international travel. Prerequisites: undergraduate engineering design project; consent of instructor.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 4
Instructors:
Leifer, L. (PI)
ME 311: Design Strategy & Leadership
The class covers the topics of the business of design, design as strategy and design research. In addition, students will learn to lead brainstorming, needfinding, and design strategy workshops with peers and industry leaders. Prerequisite:
ME313,
ME312
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Canada, A. (PI)
ME 312: Advanced Product Design: Formgiving
Lecture/lab. Small- and medium-scale design projects carried to a high degree of aesthetic refinement. Emphasis is on form development, design process, and model making. Prerequisites: 203, 313. Corequisite:
ARTSTUDI 160.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Burnett, W. (PI)
ME 313: Human Values and Innovation in Design
Introduction to the philosophy, spirit, and tradition of the product design program. Hands-on design projects used as vehicles for design thinking, visualization, and methodology. The relationships among technical, human, aesthetic, and business concerns. Drawing, prototyping, and design skills. Focus is on tenets of design philosophy: point of view, user-centered design, design methodology, and iterative design.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 3
ME 314: Good Products, Bad Products (ME 214)
The characteristics of industrial products that cause them to be successes or failures: the straightforward (performance, economy, reliability), the complicated (human and cultural fit, compatibility with the environment, craftsmanship, positive emotional response of the user), the esoteric (elegance, sophistication, symbolism). Engineers and business people must better understand these factors to produce more successful products. Projects, papers, guest speakers, field trips.
Terms: Win
| Units: 3-4
Instructors:
Beach, D. (PI)
ME 315: The Designer in Society
For graduate students. Career objectives and psychological orientation compared with existing social values and conditions. Emphasis is on assisting individuals in assessing their roles in society. Readings on political, social, and humanistic thought are related to technology and design. Experiential, in-class exercises, and term project. Enrollment limited to 24.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 3
Instructors:
Roth, B. (PI)
ME 316A: Product Design Master's Project
For graduate Product Design or Design (Art) majors only. Students create and present two master's theses under the supervision of engineering and art faculty. Theses involve the synthesis of aesthetics and technological concerns in the service of human need and possibility. Product Design students register for 4 units; Art students for 2 units. Prerequisites:
ME 216B,
ME 365 Corequisite:
ARTSTUDI 360.
Terms: Aut
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Banerjee, B. (PI)
;
Burnett, W. (PI)
ME 316B: Product Design Master's Project
Continuation of 316A.
Terms: Win
| Units: 2-4
Instructors:
Banerjee, B. (PI)
;
Burnett, W. (PI)
ME 316C: Product Design Master's Project
Continuation of 316B.
Terms: Spr
| Units: 2-4
| Repeatable
for credit
Instructors:
Banerjee, B. (PI)
;
Burnett, W. (PI)
ME 317A: Design for Manufacturability: Product Definition for Market Success
Systematic methodologies to define, develop, and produce world-class products. Student team projects to identify opportunities for improvement and develop a comprehensive product definition. Topics include value engineering, quality function deployment, design for assembly and producibility, design for variety and supply chain, design for life-cycle quality, and concurrent engineering. Students must take 317B to complete the project and obtain a letter grade. On-campus enrollment limited to 20; SCPD class size limited to 50, and each site must have at least 3 students to form a project team.
Instructors:
Beiter, K. (PI)
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