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ME886.3 Advanced Engineering Design Method

Instructor: Dr. Chris Zhang

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Course Outline

1. System and system design

2. Conceptual design

3. Modular design

4. Robust design

5. Integrated design and control

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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

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Conceptual design

The first step of design is to generate design concepts that meet customer requirements.

A systematic way to conduct conceptual design.

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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?

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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.

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Assessments

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

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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).

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References (Contd.)

N.P. Suh, Axiomatic design theory for systems, Research in Engineering Design, 10, 1998, 189-209.