Product Design and Manufacturing

 


M Des Programme

Product Design and Engineering

 

Duration: 2 years

 

Core Courses: 36 credits from the following pool

 

Course Credits Course Title

PD 201 2:1 Elements of Design

PD 203 2:1 Creative Engineering Design

PD 205 2:1 Materials, Manufacturing &

                  Design

PD 207 1:2 Product Visualization,

                   Communication and

                   Presentation

PD 209 3:0 Product Planning and

                   Marketing

PD 211 2:1 Product Design

PD 212 2:1 Computer Aided Design

PD 216 2:1 Design of Automotive Systems

PD 218 2:1 Design Management

PD 219 0:3 Mini Design Project

PD 229 0:3 Computer Aided Product

                   Design

PD 231 2:1 Applied Ergonomics

PD 235 2:1 Mechanism Design

PD 239 0:3 Design and Society

 

Project: 16 Credits

 

PD 299 0:16 Design and Fabrication Project

 

Electives: The balance of credits to make up a minimum of 64 credits required to complete the programme may be chosen as electives from within or outside the department, with the approval of the DCC/ Faculty Advisor.

 

PD 201 (AUG) 2:1

Elements of Design

 

Visual Language, visual elements, visual perception, visual deception. Universal principles of design. Theory of colour, studies in form, graphic compositions, grid structure, spatial analysis and organization. Visual expressions in nature.

 

J E Diwakar and Guest Faculty

 

Young, F.M., Visual Studies, Prentice-Hall, USA.

Lidwell, W., Holden, K., and Butler, J., Universal Principles of Design, Rockport, USA.

Evans, P., and Thomas, M., Exploring the Elements of Design, Thomson, USA.

 

 

PD 202 (AUG) 2:1

Elements of Solid and Fluid Mechanics

 

Analysis of stress and strain, failure criteria, dynamics and vibrations. Control of engineering systems, elements of fluid mechanics drag and losses, thermal analysis, problems in structural and thermal design.

 

J H Arakeri and B Gurumoorthy

 

Shigley, J.E., Mechanical Engineering Design, McGraw Hill.

White, F.M., Fluid Mechanics, Tata McGraw Hill.

Gupta, V., Elements and Heat and Mass Transfer, Sage Publishers.

 

 

PD 203 (AUG) 2:1

Creative Engineering Design

 

Design: definitions, history and modern practice. Design and society, design and the product life cycle, ecodesign. Environmental problems related to product design, life cycle assessment, case studies. Methodology for problem solving in engineering design: recognition, definition, analysis, synthesis, communication and presentation.

 

Amaresh Chakrabarti

 

Jones, J.C., Design Methods, John Wiley, 1981.

Cross, N., Engineering Design Methods, John Wiley, 1994.

Pahl, G., and Beitz, W., Engineering Design, Design Council, 1984.

Brezet and van Hammel, ECODESIGN – A promising approach to sustainable production and consumption, UNEP Manual.

 

 

PD 205 (AUG) 2:1

Materials, Manufacturing and Design

 

Engineering materials, metals and their properties, uses, processing methods, design data and applications, selection criteria, manufacturing and processing limitations, comparative studies. Plastics and composites, types, classification, properties, processing techniques and limitation, selection of plastics for specific applications, finishing and surface coating for different materials.

 

Satish Vasu Kailas and Vikram Jayaram

 

Dieter, G.E., Engineering Design – A Materials and processing approach, McGraw Hill, 1991.

Ashby, M.F., Materials selection in Mechanical Design, Pergamon press, 1992.

Patton, W.J., Plastics Technology, Theory, Design and Manufacture, Lenton Publishing Co.

 

PD 207 (AUG) 1:2

Product Visualization, Communication and Presentation

 

Object drawing fundamentals, theory of perspectives, exploded views, sectional views. Fundamentals of lighting, idea representation and communication methods and pitfalls. Materials, tools and techniques of representation in various media like pencil, ink, colour etc. Rendering techniques, air brush illustration. Idea documentation. Fundamentals of photography, video-graphy and digital media. Dark room techniques. Studio assignments in all the above topics. Mock-up modelling and simulation in various materials.

 

J E Diwakar

 

Geometry of design: Studies in proportion and composition, ISBN : 1568982496

Foundation of Art & Design 1856693759

Earle, J.E., Engineering Design Graphics, Addison Wesley, ISBN 020111318x.

 

 

PD 209 (AUG) 3:0

Product Planning and Marketing

 

Corporate strategy for product planning, introduction to marketing, new strategies, market identifications, segmentation and entry, strategies. Consumer response measurement, perceptual mapping, brand equity, strategic product positioning. Estimation of sales potential, product launching and product life cycle, advertising basics, services and processes. Fundamentals of consumer behaviour.

 

N V Chalapathi Rao

 

Philip Kotler, Marketing Management

Merle Crawford, C., New Product management

Luck, David J. and Rubin, Ronald S., Marketing Research

Schiffman and Kanuk, Consumer Behaviour

 

PD 211 (JAN) 2:1

Product Design

 

Semiotic studies – product semantics, syntactics, and pragmatics. Study of expressions, metaphors, feelings, themes. Study of product evolution, problem identification, design methods, design process, design brief, concept generation, concept selection, design and development, product detailing, prototyping, design evaluation.

 

J E Diwakar and Guest Faculty

 

Papanek, V., Design for the Real World, Thames & Hudson, London.

Ulrich, K.T., and Eppinger, S.D., Product Design and Development, Tata McGraw Hill, India.

 

PD 212 (JAN) 2:1

Computer Aided Design

 

CAD – modeling of curves, surfaces and solids manipulation of CAD models, features based modelling, parametric/variational modelling, product data exchange standards. Introduction to CAID, surfaces. Interfacing for production and tool design, photo rendering and scanning, 3D animation and morphing, studio exercise in virtual products and systems.

 

N V Chalapathy Rao and B Gurumoorthy

 

Zeid, I., CAD/CAM, McGraw Hill

 

PD 214 (JAN) 3:0

Advanced Materials and Manufacturing

 

Design for manufacture, influence of materials, process and tooling on the design of components manufactured by metal casting, forming and joining, form design of components, recent developments in casting, machining, forming and finishing, processing of polymers and ceramics, surface modification of materials.

 

Satish Vasu Kailas

 

Amstead, B.H., Oswald. P.F., and Begeman, M., Manufacturing Processes, John Wiley 1987.

Bralla, J.C., Handbook of Product Design for Manufacturing, McGraw Hill, 1988.

Levy, S., and Dubois, L.H., Plastics Production Design Engineering Handbook, Methuen Inc, New York, 1985.

 

PD 215 (JAN) 2:1

Mechatronics

 

Introduction to mechatronics – overview of mechatronic products and their functioning. Survey of mechatronical components, selection and assembly for precision-engineering applications. Study of electromechanical actuators and transducers. Load analysis and actuator selection for typical cases such as computer peripherals. Study of electronic controllers and drives for mechanical products. Interfacing of mechanical and electronic systems. Design assignments and practical case studies.

 

J E Diwakar and N S Dinesh

 

Kuo, B.C., D.C.Motors and Control systems, SRL Publishing Co., 1979.

Kuo, B.C., Step Motors and Control Systems, SRL Publishing Co., 1979.

 

PD 216 (JAN) 2:1

Design of Automotive Systems

 

Classification of automotive systems, interfacing of marketing, design and manufacturing, converting customer’s needs into technical targets, vehicle design process milestones with a systems engineering approach, trade-off studies, manufacturing cost and economic feasibility analysis. Design tools such as reverse engineering, rapid prototyping, CAD/CAE, Taguchi methods, and FMEA. Styling concepts and features, ergonomics, packaging and aerodynamics. Review of vehicle attributes (NVH, durability, vehicle dynamics, crash safety, etc.). Overview of automotive technology (body, power train, suspension systems, etc.).

 

Anindya Deb

 

Ulrich, K.T., and Eppinger, S.D., Product Design and Development, Second Edn, Irwin McGraw Hill.

Gillespie, T.D., Fundamentals of Vehicle Dynamics, SAE Inc..

Schwaller, A.E., Motor Automotive Technology, Third Edn, Delman Publishers.

 

 

PD 217 (AUG) 2:1

CAE in Product Design

 

Product development driven by concurrent engineering, role of CAE (Computer-Aided Engineering) in product design. Mathematical abstractions of products for functionality verification; lumped mass, finite element, boundary element, and statistical modeling procedures. Use of commercial finite element-based packages for design analysis and optimization.

 

Anindya Deb

 

Bathe, K.J., Finite Element Procedures, Prentice Hall, 1995.

Robert Cook, Finite Element Modeling for Stress Analysis, 1995.

Banerjee, P.K., Boundary Element Methods in Engineering Science, McGraw Hill.

 

PD 218 (JAN) 2:1

Design Management

 

Designers’ perspective of the market, designers and psychological issues, perception and errors in perception, designers’ sources of product features: projective techniques to acquire product feature databases. Designer in a team: human resources issues a designer must know, designer and competition, collaboration and conflict management, designer in an organization, designer as an entrepreneur, designers’ knowledge on intellectual property.

 

Mary Mathew

 

Oakley, M. (Ed), Design Management – A Handbook of Issues and Methods, Blackwell Publication.

 

PD 219 (AUG/JAN) 0:3

Mini Design Project

 

A project involving either redesign of an existing product or conceptualisation of a new product considering functional, materials and manufacturing, ergonomic, aesthetic and marketing aspects. Product detailing using CAD/CAID tools. Presentation to mockup level with complete documentation for purposes of fabrication.

Faculty

 

PD 221 (JAN) 2:1

Methodology for Design Research

 

Introduction to design research, a methodology for design research and its components, types of design research, selecting criteria and its research methods, understanding factors influencing design and its research methods, developing design support and its research methods, evaluating design support and its research methods, associated exercises and tests.

 

Amaresh Chakrabarti

 

Blessing, L.T.M., Chakrabarti, A., and Wallace, K.M., An Overview of Design Studies in Relation to a Design Research Methodology.

Frankengerger and Badke-Schaub (Eds), Designers: The Key to Successful Product Development, Springer Verlag, 1998.

Current Literature including papers from Proceedings of the International Conference in Engineering Design, Prague, 1995.

 

 

PD 229 (AUG/JAN) 0:3

Computer Aided Product Design

 

Project in re-engineering a product using computer tools for reverse engineering geometry and intent, design evaluation, modification and prototyping.

A Ghosal and B Gurumoorthy

 

PD 231 (JAN) 2:1

Applied Ergonomics

 

Introduction to ergonomics. Elements of anthropometry, physiology, anatomy, biomechanics and CTDs. Workspace, seating, hand tool design, manual material handling. Man-machine system interface, human information processing, displays and controls, compatibility. Environmental factors, cognitive ergonomics, principles of graphic user interface design, human error, product safety, product liability.

 

Rina Maiti and Dibakar Sen


Sanders and McCormic, Human Factors in Engineering and Design, Seventh Edn, McGraw Hill, 1992.

Eberts, R.E., User Interface Design, Prentice Hall, 1994.

 

PD 235 (AUG) 2:1

Mechanism Design

 

Machines and mechanisms, links, pairs, degrees of freedom, kinematic chain, inversions. Kinematic analysis of simple mechanisms by graphical and analytic methods, static force analysis. Dimensional synthesis of four bar mechanism, application of coupler curves for dwell mechanisms, two and three position rigid body guidance. Cams, displacement curves and profile generation. Gears, profiles, cycloidal and involute, contact ratio. Spur, bevel, helical, worm gearing. Analysis of gear trains, mechanisms for specific functions.

 

Dibakar Sen and J E Diwakar

 

Sandor, G.N., and Erdman, A.G., Advanced Mechanism Design, Volumes I & II, Prentice Hall of India Limited, New Delhi.

Artobolevsky, I.I., Mechanisms in Modern Engineering Design, Vol. I to IV, Mir Publishers, Moscow.

Mabie, H.E., and Ocvirk, F.W., Mechanisms and Dynamics of Machinery, John Wiley and sons, New York.

Current Literature

 

PD 239 (AUG/JAN) 0:3

Design and Society

 

Independent study/research on a chosen topic by students under the supervision of faculty members. Presentation of seminar on work done. The course also includes invited seminars on various aspects of Product Design and Marketing issues. The Focus is on real life situations from practicing professionals.

 

Faculty

 

PD 299 (JAN) 0:16

 

Project

 

Spread over 15 months, commencing immediately after the second semester. A project involving complete design and prototype fabrication with full documentation.

 

Faculty