INSE 6411

Product Design and Methodology (4 credits)

1. General Information
INSE6411: Product Design and Methodology (4 credits) Time: January 6 March 30, 2012, Fridays: 5:45 p.m. 8:15 p.m., MB-S1.235. Instructor: Yong Zeng, Ph.D., P.Eng., Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, http://www.ciise.concordia.ca/~zeng. Office: EV7.633, extension 5801, zeng@ciise.concordia.ca Office hours: Fridays from 2:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Teaching assistant: Mr. Suo Tan, Tel.: 7043, E-mail: suo_tan@encs.concordia.ca Course website: https://moodle.concordia.ca/moodle/login/index.php

2. Course Description This course introduces two main design methods for the innovative and creative design:
environment based design (EBD) and (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving) TRIZ. It aims to develop students' design thinking ability through a science-based design methodology. Major focus will be on gathering and analysis of customer requirements, design concept generation, and concept evaluation. Students should be comfortable to design any new product after taking this course.

3. Learning Outcomes
By the end of this course, students should be able to: 1. Understand the challenges in design 2. Identify design problems from real life applications 3. Analyze a design problem and develop solutions 4. Able to proceed with any kind of design problem.

4. Schedule
Lecture # 1, January 6 Topic Introduction to the course 1.1 What is design 1.2 What is design methodology 1.3 History of design methodology 1.3.1 Systematic design 1.3.2 Axiomatic Design 1.3.3 TRIZ 1.3.4 Decision Based Design 1.3.5 Quality Function Deployment Exercise design. Challenges in Design Innovation and Creativity 2.1 Mental workload in innovative and creative design 2.1.1 Mental workload Design Project

2, January 13

Form design teams.

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3, January 20

4, January 27

5, February 3

6, February 10

7, February 17

2.1.2 Creativity 2.1.3 Mental workload-creativity relationship 2.2 Nature of design problem 2.2.1 Logic of design 2.2.2 Mental workload from the nature of design problem 2.3 Design fixation 2.3.1 Source of design fixation 2.3.2 Types of design fixation 2.3.3 Mental workload from design fixation Environment-Based Design (EBD): Introduction 3.1 Driving force behind design 3.2 Basic procedures of EBD 3.3 Main issues in EBD 3.4 Running example Recursive Object Model (ROM) 4.1 Theoretical foundation 4.2 ROM diagram 4.2.1 Objects 4.2.2 Relationships 4.3 Representation of semantic information 4.3.1 Identification of center object 4.3.2 Rules for merging ROM diagrams 4.3.3 Rules for simplifying ROM diagrams 4.4 Applications of ROM to design EBD: Environment Analysis 5.1 Roadmap 5.1.1 Types of environment 5.1.2 Relation analysis 5.1.3 Environment system in ROM diagram 5.2 Natural environment 5.3 Built environment 5.4 Human environment 5.5 Gathering of design requirements from environment 5.6 Question asking strategy 5.6.1 Generic question based on ROM 5.6.2 Domain question based on roadmap 5.6.3 Question asking strategy 5.7 Question answering Conflict Identification First assignment due 6.1 Structure of design conflict 6.2 Conflicts in ROM 6.3 Rules for conflict identification 6.4 Procedures for conflict identification 6.4.1 Dependence network from ROM diagram 6.4.2 Identification of conflict network 6.4.3 Application of axiomatic design EBD: Solution Generation 7.1 Conflict decomposition 7.2 Conflict resolution

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7.3 Procedures for solution generation 7.4 Application of TRIZ methodology 8, March 2 Routes to Innovative and Creative Design Second assignment due 8.1 Routes to innovative and creative design 8.2 Management of stresses in innovative and creative design 8.3 Management of design problem 8.4 Overcoming design fixation March 9 Midterm exam 9, March 16 Case study: algorithm design 10, March 23 Case study: quality management program design 12, March 30 Case study: process design Final design report due April 2: Project presentation in my office: EV07.633

5. Course Materials
Textbooks: 1. Yong Zeng, Environment Based Design (EBD), Handout course materials (to be published by Springer, 2. Michael A. Orloff, Inventive Thinking through TRIZ: a Practical Guide, Springer, 2006. References: 1. Semyon D. Savransky, Engineering of Creativity: Introduction to TRIZ Methodology of Inventive Problem 2. The Mechanical Design Process, Third Edition, by David G. Ullman, McGraw Hill. 3. Pahl, G., Beitz, W., 1998, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach, Springer-Verlag, Berlin. 3. Suh, N., 1990, The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press. 4. Altshuller, G. S., 1988, Creativity as an Exact Science, Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, New 5. Hubka, V. and Eder, W., 1988, Theory of Technical Systems, Springer-Verlag. 6. George E. Dieter, Engineering Design: a Materials and Processing Approach, Third Edition, McGraw
Hill. York. Solving, CRC; 1st edition, 2000. London), 2012.

6. Grading
1. 2. 3. 4. Grading: Exercise design: Assignments (2): Course project: Mid-term Exam: Details: 5%
10% 45% 40%

1. Homework Assignments (2): must be done individually. Late assignments suffer a penalty rate of 20% per day, up to 5 days (weekends count towards the 5 days). Assignments that are more than 5 days late are penalized by 100%. The solutions will be posted on the course website. No submissions will be allowed after the solutions are published.
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Submit the signed Expectations of Originality form with each homework assignment. 2. Course project: Will be group project. Project report must be handed in the class on the due date. Late submission will NOT be accepted under any circumstances. All the reports should be submitted electronically to me and cc Mr. Suo Tan <suo_tan@encs.concordia.ca> on the due date before 12:00am.

Failing Grade: Plagiarism, absenteeism, lack of preparation, and lack of effort will result in a failing grade.

7. Academic Code of Conduct

Academic Integrity Any form of cheating, plagiarism, personation, falsification of a document as well as any other form of dishonest behaviour related to the obtention of academic gain or the avoidance of evaluative exercises committed by a student is an academic offence under the Academic Code of Conduct and may lead to severe penalties up to and including suspension and expulsion. As examples only, you are not permitted to: Copy from anywhere without indicating where it came from Let another student copy your work and then submit it as his/her own Hand in the same assignment in more than one class Have unauthorized material or devices in an exam. Note that you do not have to be caught using them just having them is an offence Copy from someones else exam Communicate with another student during an exam Add or remove pages from an examination booklet or take the booklet out of an exam room Acquire exam or assignment answers or questions Write an exam for someone else or have someone write an exam for you Submit false documents such as medical notes or student records Falsify data or research results You are subject to the Academic Code of Conduct. Take the time to learn more at http://provost.concordia.ca/academicintegrity/

8. Students Responsibilities
Students are expected to attend every class. Some material may only be covered in class and not made available on the course website. Students are expected to read the assigned material and to actively participate in class discussions. Students are expected to be respectful of other peoples opinions and to express their own views in a calm and reasonable way. Disruptive behaviour will not be tolerated. Students are expected to be familiar with the Code of Rights and Responsibilities: http://rights.concordia.ca If you cannot attend class for any reason, unforeseen or not, you are to come and talk or write to me as soon as possible.

9. Student Services
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Concordia Counselling and Development offers career services, psychological services, student learning services, etc. http://cdev.concordia.ca The Concordia Library Citation and Cycle Guides: http://library.concordia.ca/help/howto/citations.html Advocacy and Support Services: http://supportservices.concordia.ca Student Transition Centre: http://stc.concordia.ca New Student Program: http://newstudent.concordia.ca Office for Students with Disabilities: http://supportservices.concordia.ca/disabilities/ The Academic Integrity Website: http://provost.concordia.ca/academicintegrity/

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