Product Design and Development

    Course Code: 
    8166
    Semester: 
    6th
    Specialization Courses
    Professor: 

    SODERQUIST KLAS-ERIC

    Course Description

    This course will equip the students with basic understanding and fundamental knowledge about product design, new product development, and the management and strategic importance of these processes. The emphasis is on developing practical skills related to product management from the perspectives of industrial design and product engineering. The course has an interdisciplinary base, which resides on innovation and then integrates concepts and methods of aesthetics, semantics, design functionality, technology management, user-led innovation, manufacturing, environmental sustainability, ergonomics, organization and strategy. The aim is to propose a balanced blend of creative, technical and managerial aspects of the subject matter. The mix of pedagogical methods -lectures, exercises, cases, visits and group project- will instill an independent learning ability among the students, required to grasp and the complexity of product design and development.

    Learning Outcomes

    Upon completion of the course, students will be able to:

    • Understand product design and development by combining creative thinking, aesthetic awareness, technological reasoning, customer/market understanding, and strategizing capability;
    • Apply design thinking, design management and design execution skills;
    • Manage and implement methods, tools and software for product design and product development management;
    • Analyze and evaluate the importance of product design for innovation in general, e.g., in terms of human centered design, sustainable & green design and open innovation models;
    • Analyse and understand how technology, manufacturing/industrialization, and market dynamics relate to product design and product development.