ME886.3 Advanced Engineering Design Method

1. ME886.3 Advanced Engineering Design Method Instructor: Dr. Chris Zhang

2. Course Outline • System and system design • Conceptual design • Modular design • Robust design • Integrated design and control

3. Course Outline Basic concepts in system and system design • Everything is viewed as a system: a systems perspective of everything • System: what it is and how we represent everything into a system

4. Course Outline Conceptual design • The first step of design is to generate design concepts that meet customer requirements. • A systematic way to conduct conceptual design.

5. Course Outline Modular design • Computer is highly modularized but the modularization of the computer takes about 40 years. • A systematic way to modularize a product so that the time to modularize a product may be shortened. • Modularization feasibility: some types of products may not be suitable to modularization?

6. Course Outline Robust design Robustness: An ability of a system that keeps its original function unchanged under disturbances. Robust design: determine parameters or values of parameters such that a system can have a desired level of robustness.

7. Assessments • Class discussion/presentation (Remark 2), 10% • Assignments/lab report (robust design, Remark 1), 10% • Project (Remark 3), 20% • Final exam,60%

8. References • Nam P. Suh, The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, 1990 • G. Pahl and W.Beitz, Engineering Design: a systematic approach Second edition, Springer, 1995. • N.P. Suh, Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications, (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2001). • D.G. Lee, & N.P. Suh, Axiomatic Design and Fabrication of Composite Structures: Applications in Robots, Machine Tools, and Automobiles, (US: Oxford University Press, 2006).

9. References (Contd.) • N.P. Suh, Axiomatic design theory for systems, Research in Engineering Design, 10, 1998, 189-209.