Overview

The major focus of this course is to expose attendees to design process, research and analysis, teamwork, communication methods, and engineering standards.

The course will lead participants towards enhancing their interpersonal skills, creative abilities and understanding of the design process. Participants will combine their knowledge of design, engineering, and manufacturing processes to create functional designs and to understand how their decisions affect product cost, performance, and quality.They will also learn how to document their work, and communicate their solutions to their peers, managers, and members of the professional community

Although the course is assumed to be an introduction to the fundamentals of engineering design, participants are assumed to be concurrently engaged in design in one way or another in order for them to employ engineering and scientific concepts in the solution of engineering design problems

Objectives

Engineering design is intended to provide a realistic understanding of the engineering design process beyond as it has been perceived of being a mathematical equation to be solved or optimized. The course is intended to provide attendees with a cohesive structure for the design process that they can use with a variety of design methods and tools when dealing with new design creation or improving an existing one.

Who Should Attend?

Engineering design is for engineering students, practicing engineers. Managers enrolled in projects’ creation and implementation are also encouraged to attend this course despite the fact that it has an engineering perspective.

Learning Outcomes

1. After attending this course, the attendee will be able to
2. Understanding the importance of design process,
3. Identify the problem and identifying needs,
4. Effectively gather design required information,
5. Use effective concept generation tools ,
6. Produce robust design by including quality and optimization techniques within the design
7. Verify and evaluate all costs associated with the design.
8. Effectively select design team members and manage design project time

Workshop Structure

Due to the vast information that will be covered through this course and due to the variety of attendees disciplines and area of application, the course will be run on a classroom style by providing attendees with simple examples clear enough to conveys the course contents ideas. The course is designed to lead the attendees towards the course objectives based on the following modules;

Module 1: Introduction to Engineering Design

• Introduction
• Objectives of Engineering Design
• Types of Design
• Engineering Design Methodology
• Characteristics of Environmental Design
• Engineering and Future trends
• Concurrent Engineering

Module 2: Problem Definition

• Identifying Customer Needs
• Gathering Information
• Customer Requirements
• Benchmarking
• Quality Function Deployment
• Product Design Specification

Module 3: Generating Solutions

• The Information Challenge
• Design Information
• Improving Creative abilities
• Creative Thinking Methods

Module 4: Putting It Together

• Introduction
• Design for X
• Human Factors and Ergonomics
• Design Testing

Module 5: Detail Design

• Detail Design
• Detail Design Activities
• Communicating Design and Manufacturing Information

Module 6: Selection of Material

• Material and Recycling
• Design and Materials Selection
• Selection Criteria
• Materials Selection and Recycling
• Design for Recycling
• Manufacturing Process
• Design for Manufacturing
• Design for Assembly

Module 7: Risk, Reliability, and Safety

• Introduction
• Risk Assessment
• Design for Reliability
• Design for Safety

Module 8: Quality, Robust Design, and Optimization

• Definition of Quality

• The Concept of Total Quality
• ISO 9000
• Costs of Quality
• Six Sigma Quality Program
• Taguchi Method
• Design Optimization

Module 9: Cost Evaluation

• Categories of Costs
• Cost Estimates
• Activity Based costing
• Outsourcing
• Design to Cost
• Life Cycle Costing
• Economic Decision Making

Module 10: Social, Legal, and Ethical Issues in Engineering Design

• Building Effective Teams
• Team Roles
• Team Dynamics
• Managing Meetings
• Problem Solving Tools
• Time Management
• Legal and Ethical issues

Duration: 5 Days