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

Course Outline System and system design Conceptual design Modular design Robust design Integrated design and control

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

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.

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?

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.

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

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).

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