Make the students capable of performing multi dimensional analysis of a
product. Provide models for a basic understanding of artifacts with
respect to functionality, properties, product structure and manufacturing.
Exercise skills in analysis, description and communication of these
relations. Provide a basis for reflective behavior in project work
concerning ones own participation and the return of the teamwork.
Engineering Design Methods: Strategies for Product Design, 4th Edition,
Nigel Cross, John Wiley and Sons Ltd., Chichester, 2008.
Thompson Rob, Il manuale per il design dei prodotti industriali, Zanichelli,
bologna, 2012
Learning Objectives
A student who has met the objectives of the course will be able to:
- describe a product's structure, working principle and embodiment.
- describe a product's manufacturing and assembly.
- interpret the results into a number of improvement aspects.
Prerequisites
None.
Teaching Methods
The Course is organized in lectures, training and teamwork
Type of Assessment
The exanimation consists in the presentation and discussion of the
performed teamwork
Course program
Technical analysis of industrial products: objectives and motivations.
Fundamentals models for technical and functional analysis of artifacts.
Illustrative examples.