Hone your product design skills through TechMade’s Product Design and Realization course!
[Enrollment is via instructor permission only. Complete the interest form if you’d like to apply.]
Interest Form: https://gatech.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_esKMquFEJovhxhs (Deadline to submit: Extended to 11th August 2024)
Course Introduction
In this course, you will learn the fundamentals of product realization to transform a concept into a fully functioning product and apply new skills to real-world projects. This cross-disciplinary course emphasizes product realization in the context of human-centered design through considerations of human-product interactions, ergonomics and anthropometry, ethnographic techniques, and more. Through the use of hands-on prototyping, such as additive manufacturing and low-volume manufacturing, as well as digital engineering tools, including simulation-based design, intelligent systems, and digital twins, you will gain significant product design and realization exposure and experience.
Course Overview:
- Lectures: MW 9:30am – 10:20am
- Lab: F 12:30 pm – 3:15 pm
- Semester-long team project
- Three mini exploration projects
Course Prerequisites
- ME 2110 (ME Students)
- ID 2325 (ID Students)
- Equivalent sophomore-level course for other majors
Course Goals and Learning Outcomes:
- Transition a design concept towards production efficiently and effectively, supported by well-informed, well-justified decisions and strategic planning.
- Design and build prototypes with design for manufacturing considerations, where manufacturing includes additive manufacturing, low-volume manufacturing (machining, water-jetting, woodworking), and production manufacturing (molding, forming, casting)
- Transition the design of a low-volume prototype into a design for high-volume production.
- Critically evaluate multiple options for prototyping and make well-informed, well-justified decisions regarding the best combination of options for a specific project.
- Create and interrogate simulation models to evaluate and refine potential designs and to serve as digital twins of a physical part/system.
- Utilize data mining, machine learning, and generative design to support and accelerate the design process.
- Implement human-centered design techniques to guide the embodiment of products/systems, including considerations of human-product interaction, ergonomics, and anthropometry, aesthetics, and interviewing techniques focused on prototyping.
- Evaluate and make well-informed, well-justified decisions regarding the complementary roles of prototyping, simulation, and human-centered design in product realization.
Questions?
If you have questions regarding the course, please email Dr. Carolyn Seepersad at carolyn.seepersad[at]me.gatech.edu