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Course Descriptor DES602

The course DES602, Design Practice, taught by Dr. Amar Behera, covers the theory, process, and societal impact of design, including topics like product development, decision making, and contemporary trends such as AI/ML and IoT. Assessments include attendance, coursework, and exams, with a total of 9 credits awarded. The tentative lecture schedule outlines various design topics from January to April 2025.

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Course Descriptor DES602

The course DES602, Design Practice, taught by Dr. Amar Behera, covers the theory, process, and societal impact of design, including topics like product development, decision making, and contemporary trends such as AI/ML and IoT. Assessments include attendance, coursework, and exams, with a total of 9 credits awarded. The tentative lecture schedule outlines various design topics from January to April 2025.

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Course Descriptor

Course: DES602, Design Practice (3-0-0-0) 9 Credits

Instructor: Dr. Amar Behera

Email: [email protected]

Contact Information: DJAC, 605H-A Tel: 2401 (Work)

Class Timings: Mondays and Wednesdays - 6.15 pm to 7.30 pm

Course Contents (draft): Introduction to theory, rationale, practice, and societal impact of design, design process, critical issues,
relationship to the environment, product development process, problem definition and need identification, concurrent
engineering, team behavior and tools, gathering information, concept generation, coupled, decoupled and uncoupled designs,
decision making and concept selection, embodiment design, micro and macro designs, detail design, modeling and simulation,
materials selection, design for manufacturing, risk, reliability and safety, quality, robust design and optimization, cost evaluation,
legal and ethical issues, economic decision making, innovation, computational design synthesis, contemporary trends in design
practice (AI/ML, AR/VR, IoT, etc.), service innovation, practical work on problem formulation, innovation, decision making,
teamworking, etc. using group discussions, case studies, reviewing books and journals, etc.
Reference Texts:

• Ellen Lupton, Design is Storytelling (New York: Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, 2017) ISBN: 978-
1-942303-19-0
• George Dieter, Linda Schmidt, Engineering Design, 6th Edition, ISBN: 9355322259, McGraw Hill
• Stiny, George. Shape: talking about seeing and doing. MIT Press, 2006.
• Karl T. Ulrich, Steven D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development, McGraw-Hill Education (7th edition)
• Jonathan Cagan and Craig M. Vogel, Creating breakthrough products: Innovation from product planning to
program approval. Ft Press, 2002.
Assessments:

Attendance: 10 marks Coursework: 40 marks Exam(s): 50 marks

Lecture Schedule (tentative):

06-Jan L1: Intro to design practice 03-Mar L15: Design for manufacturing
08-Jan L2: The design process 05-Mar L16: Risk, reliability and safety
13-Jan L3: Problem development and needs identification 10-Mar Spring break
15-Jan L4: Concurrent engineering and working in teams 12-Mar Spring break
20-Jan L5: Team behavior and tools 17-Mar L17: Quality, robust design and optimisation
22-Jan L6: Gathering information and discovery 19-Mar L18: Cost evaluation
27-Jan L7: Concept generation, coupled, decoupled, uncoupled designs 24-Mar L19: Legal and ethical issues
29-Jan L8: Model building 26-Mar L20: Economic decision making
03-Feb L9: Decision making and concept selection 31-Mar Id-ul-Fitr
05-Feb L10: Embodiment design 02-Apr L21: Design innovation
10-Feb L11: Micro and macro designs 07-Apr L22: Computational design synthesis and generative design
12-Feb L12: Detail design 09-Apr L23: Contemporary design practice - 1
17-Feb L13: Modeling and simulation 14-Apr L24: Contemporary design practice - 2
19-Feb L14: Materials selection 16-Apr L25: Contemporary design practice - 3
24-Feb Mid-sem examinations 21-Apr L26: Contemporary design practice - 4
26-Feb Mid-sem examinations 23-Apr L27: Contemporary design practice - 5

Distributed on 05/01/2025

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