Product Design, 1st edition

Product Design presents an in-depth study of structured design processes and methods.

• Fundamental approach—A systematic and methods-based strategy to product development.

  • Reverse engineering and product teardowns (dissection) offer a better paradigm for design instruction, permitting a modern learning cycle of experience, hypothesis, understanding, and new design execution. Ex.___

• Students see good design before they attempt design.

  • Systematic methods provide structure for the learning of design. Ex.___

• Concrete experiences with hands-on products.

  • Students gain confidence through improving commercial products. Ex.___

• Application of modern technologies.

  • Rapid numerical exploration links engineering analysis to design. Ex.___

• Studies of systematic experimentation.

  • Easy to follow explanations permit effective improvement of products. Ex.___

• Exploration of the boundaries of design methodology.

  • Authors explain underlying assumptions and limits to design methods. Ex.___

• Decision making for real product development.

  • Industrially proven methods and their underlying reasoning are explained. Ex.___

• Discusses foundation material of product design, including a philosophy for learning and implementing product design.

  • Perspective is gained on what methods can do and will do in the future. Ex.___

• Each chapter includes both basic and advanced techniques for particular phases of product development.

  • Permits instructor customization of the material—High-level or in-depth study on the various aspects of product development. Ex.___

• Presents theory and concrete examples of emerging design techniques and principles.

  • The reader will study contemporary design-for-manufacturing, design-for-the-environment, prototyping, and design-for-assembly methods. Ex.___