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School of Engineering and Informatics (for staff and students)

Design Techniques in Practice (H7072)

Design Techniques in Practice

Module H7072

Module details for 2023/24.

15 credits

FHEQ Level 5

Pre-Requisite

Materials & Manufacture,
Product Design for the 21st Century,
Principles of Engineering Design,
Visual Communication.

Module Outline

Design Techniques in Practice is a core module of any Product Design degree. It delivers methods, thinking processes and techniques that will help you organise projects throughout your degree and designer career. This includes an understanding of the main empathic and intuitive (non-systematic) design research methods to develop design thoughts and subsequent concepts. There is an appreciation for the relevance and importance of the Product Design Specification (PDS), with an understanding of how it changes during a typical Product Design development process. You will be using two and three-dimensional sketch concepts, along with other typical design development techniques such as the use of two and three-dimensional computer-aided design (CAD), user-testing and conceptual iterations. The module content and associated project brief include the presentation of design concepts that could be taken to the eventual physical creation.

Library

ENGINEERING DESIGN METHODS, STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCT DESIGN - Cross, Nigel. Wiley.
ISBN: 0 471 872250 4.
ENGINEERING METHODS FOR ROBUST PRODUCT DESIGN - Fowlkes, W. Crevelling, C. Addison Wesley.
ISBN: 10:0-201-63367-1.
ENGINEERING DESIGN METHODS, STRATEGIES FOR PRODUCT DESIGN - Nigel Cross. Wiley.
ISBN: 2004 0-471-872250-4.
CREATIVE PROBLEM SOLVING AND ENGINEERING DESIGN - Lumsdaine, E. Lumsdaine, M. Shelnutt, J. William. Mcgraw-Hill College. ISBN: 0072360585.
CREATING INNOVATIVE PRODUCTS USING TOTAL DESIGN - Pugh, S. Addison Wesley Longman;
ISBN: 0201634856.
DRAWING FOR DESIGNERS - Alan Pipes. Laurence King. ISBN: 978-1-85669-533-6.
PRODUCT DESIGN - Baxter, Mike. CRC Press. ISBN: 0-7487-4197-6.
WHAT IS PRODUCT DESIGN? Laura Slack. RotoVision. ISBN: 978-2-940361-24-3.

Module learning outcomes

Apply typical design techniques for the creation and presentation of viable solutions and related design concepts, according to customer and user requirements and final product design specifications, (PDS).

Collect, analyse and apply appropriate design and research methods addressing limited or contradictory information to inform design decisions to create feasible design solutions to technical problems.

Apply knowledge of non-engineering methods in technical design to monitor and interpret the results of analyses and modelling. This will then be applied to a proposed concept in order to produce a viable and workable design concept.

Demonstrate knowledge of and apply engineering and design methods in technical design to monitor and interpret the results of analyses and modelling to produce a viable and workable design concept. and workable design concept.

TypeTimingWeighting
Coursework100.00%
Coursework components. Weighted as shown below.
PortfolioA1 Week 1 80.00%
ReportT1 Week 9 20.00%
Timing

Submission deadlines may vary for different types of assignment/groups of students.

Weighting

Coursework components (if listed) total 100% of the overall coursework weighting value.

TermMethodDurationWeek pattern
Autumn SemesterLecture2 hours11111111100
Autumn SemesterWorkshop2 hours00001011111

How to read the week pattern

The numbers indicate the weeks of the term and how many events take place each week.

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