ME870 DESIGN METHODOLOGY
Spring 2005
Dr. Georges M. Fadel, EIB 202, tel 656-5620
e-mail: fgeorge@clemson.edu

url: http://design.eng.clemson.edu/fadel/                     Students

Description: Study and nurturing of creativity as well as decision making processes for design. In depth study of the mechanical design process and tools. These include QFD, concurrent design, systematic design, robust design, DFA, axiomatic design.

Textbook:   none required

References:
The Science of the Artificial, H. Simon,
The machine that changed the World, Womack, Jones and Roos, MIT Pr.
Product Design, Otto and Wood, Prentice Hall
Improving Engineering Design -NRC
Research Opportunities in Engineering Design - NSF
Principles of Design by Nam Suh
Taguchi Methods by Peace
Engineering Design Methods by Nigel Cross
Total Design by Pugh
Engineering Design by Pahl and Beitz
Product Design for Assembly by Boothroyd and Dewhurst
The Mechanical Design Process , D. Ullman, Mc Graw Hill
The Team Memory Jogger, Goal/QPC Joiner Publication, 1996.
Systems Engineering - An approach to Information Based Design. Hazelrigg
Design For Manufacture Corbett et al. Add. Wesley
Engineering Design and DFM - Dixon and Poli

Objectives:   To provide engineering students interested in design with a solid set of tools and systematic methods to approach and perform design from the conceptual stage to the detailed stage. Three main goals are targeted:

• Strengthen the student’s understanding of and experience with the design process.
• Expose students to contemporary work in design theories and methodologies.
• Develop the student’s creative and problem solving abilities through the use of case studies.

Topical Outline:
- Creativity and the design process
- User needs. Market analysis
- Product Design Specification PDS
- Functional decomposition
- QFD House of Quality
- Axiomatic Design
- Taguchi Robust design, DOE
- Concurrent engineering
- Design and manufacturing - - DFM
- Design for Assembly DFA
- Design for Disassembly DFD- Green Design
- Decision Based Design

Structure: Topics to be covered will be presented through a combination of lectures, assignments and reviews of technical papers in the field. Various assignments will be used to illustrate the different methodologies to be considered.

Students will be expected to work either individually or in groups (as specified by the instructor) on open ended problems. There will be reading assignments from technical journals and textbooks related to the topics discussed in class.

Each student will make at least one oral presentation reviewing a technical paper related to one of the course topics.

Assignments and reports will be posted on the web. You are to create your own web page, and I will connect all the individual pages to the course page.

Policies: My expectations of you are similar to those you have of me. I assume that you will attend class, that you will be on time and prepared, and that you will maintain a professional and courteous relationship. If an emergency prevents you from attending class or submitting an assignment, please let me know about it with as much notice as possible. For reasonable excuses, I will work with you on making up missed work.

All Assignments must be completed to receive a grade in the course.

I will not tolerate cheating, plagiarism, receiving unauthorized aid or any other violation of academic honesty. All work submitted to me for a grade is to be your own work. Any instance of academic dishonesty will be dealt with in the manner prescribed in the Clemson University Graduate School Announcements as well as in the CES Honor code.

Grading: Assignments 55%
Paper review and presentation 10%
Participation 10%
Final Exam/project 25%

Journal and conference references:
ASME Journal of Mechanical Design
Research in Engineering Design
Engineering Design and Automation
AI for Engineering Design Analysis and Manufacturing
Concurrent Engineering Research and Applications
Design Studies
Journal of Design
Journal of Engineering Design
Journal of Intelligent Manufacturing
Multicriteria Decision Analysis
Expert Systems with Applications

ASME Design Technical Conferences
ASME Congress
International Conference on Engineering Design ICED

Kirschman, C., Fadel, G.M. and Jara-Almonte, C. "Classifying Functions for Mechanical Design" Design Theory and Methodology Conference, ASME Design Technical Conferences, Irvine, CA, Published in Conference proceedings, modified and forwarded to ASME Transactions of Design, August 1996.

Kirschman, C., Fadel, G.M. and Jara-Almonte, C. "A Functional Design Software System" Section of PhD thesis.

Kirschman, C.F. and Fadel, G.M. "Customer Metrics for the Selection of Generic Forms at the Conceptual Stage of Design" Paper presented at the ASME Design Technical Conferences, Design Theory and Methodology Conference, Sacramento, Ca, August 1997. Published in Conference Proceedings.

Lectures                                                                                 Notes

Lecture 1                                                                          Design Intro                                         Assignment 1

Lecture 2                                                                          Functional basis presentation
                                                                                         Functional basis presentation2
                                                                                         Functional basis presentation3
Lecture 3 Creativity, Ergonomics, teaming                                                                                 Assignment 2
                                                                                          Link to Dr. Ron Nowaczyk's Teaming pages
                                                                                         MS Access Database for PDS
                                                                                         Teaming Document
                                                                                         Innovation network Link
                                                                                         PDS presentation
Lecture 4 Decision Making
Lecture 5 QFD                                                                  QFD Notes
                                                                                         Function and Affordance presentation
Assignment 4
Lecture 6a Axiomatic Design I                                              Axiomatic Theory - Axiom 1
Lecture 6b Axiomatic Design II                  
Lecture 6 Taguchi Methods                                            
Lecture 7a Axiomatic Design I                                              Axiomatic Theory - Axiom 1
Purchase the book "The machine that changed the world" and read it by Thursday Feb 24 . I will ask you to summarize the book, tell me the lessons learned - Kris and Anwar present
                 
Lecture 7b Axiomatic Design II                  
Lecture 8a Concurrent Engineering
Lecture 8b DFM
Lecture 10 10/28 Tape DFMA - Boothroyd Dewhurst
Lecture 11 DFA 11/04                                                                                                         Assignment 6
Lecture 12 Concurrent Engineering 11/11
Lecture 13 Fundamentals of Data Management 11/18
Lecture 14 Collaborative Design 12/2
Lecture 15 Costing 12/2 - Taguchi
Lecture 14 10/14 - Taguchi
Lecture 15 10/19  - Taguchi
Lecture 16 10/24
Lecture 17 10/26
Lecture 18 10/31
Lecture 19 11/2
Lecture 20 11/9
Lecture 21 11/14
Lecture 22 11/16
Lecture 23 11/21
Lecture 24 11/28
Lecture 25 11/30
Lecture 26 12/5
Lecture 27 12/7