"Product Design & Development" is a project-based course, which challenges students to design a new product and to produce a prototype version of it. This OCW site includes Lecture Notes in PDF format, Project Examples and Guidelines for Projects. The textbook, Product Design and Development, was co-written by Professor Steven Eppinger (see http://www.ulrich-eppinger.net/ for more information).

Covers modern tools and methods for product design and development. The cornerstone is a project in which teams of management, engineering, and industrial design students conceive, design, and prototype a physical product. Class sessions are conducted in workshop mode and employ cases and hands-on exercises to reinforce the key ideas. Topics include identifying customer needs, concept generation, product architecture, industrial design, and design-for-manufacturing.