Product Design and Development
This course will equip the students with basic understanding and fundamental knowledge about product design, new product development, and the management and strategic importance of these processes. The emphasis is on developing practical skills related to product management from the perspectives of industrial design and product engineering. The course has an interdisciplinary base, which resides on innovation and then integrates concepts and methods of aesthetics, semantics, design thinking, technology management, user-led innovation, manufacturing, environmental sustainability, ergonomics, organization and strategy. The aim is to propose a balanced blend of creative, technical and managerial aspects of the subject matter.
The mix of pedagogical methods -lectures, exercises, casests and group project- will instill an independent learning ability among the students, required to grasp the complexity of product design and development.