Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Design and product functionality (17.P4410)

Native organizations units: Department of Production Engineering

Type of studies	Title
Undergraduate Academic Studies	Production Engineering (Year: 4, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Professional-applicative
Scientific or art field	Processes for Material Removal Processing
ECTS	5

The course introduces students to main stages of product design and development. The insight into development process begins with identifying customer needs, establishing product specification, as well as generation and evaluation of possible concepts.

Students gain understanding of the role of product design in creation of new products, as well as main principles of rational design from technical and technological point of view.

Design as a concept. History of product design. The role of product design in modern manufacture. The influence of the different designs schools on product design culture. Concept, classification and product features. Innovation and design. Current trends in sustainable product design. The principles of universal design. Factors affecting on the product design. Elements and principles of product design. Sustainable product design. Sketching in design. Design and computer technology. The basic design cycle. Models of the design process.

Lectures are realized in the form of lectures, computer and graphical practical classes. During lectures theoretical part is presented with appropriate practical examples. During practical classes exercises are performed as well as appropriate projects and seminar papers. Apart from that regular consultations are held for the purpose of clarification of subject content and help elaboration of projects and seminar papers. Final mark is formed on the basis of class attendance, partial examination results and oral part.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
Slack, Laura	What is Product Design?	2006	Roto Vision	English
Olofsson E., Sjolen K.	Design Sketching	2005	Keeos Design Books AB, Sweden	English
Pahl, G., Beitz, W.	Engineering Design A Systematics Approach	1988	The Design Council, London	English
Otto, Kevin N.	Product design	2001	New Yersey: Prentice Hall	English
Eggert, Rudolph	Engineering Design	2005	New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall	English
Ulrich, K., Eppinger, S.	Product design and development	2016	McGraw-Hill, Chennai	English
Waldemar Karwowski, Marcelo M. Soares, Neville A. Stanton	Human factors and ergonomics in consumer product design	2011	FL: CRC Press, Boca Raton	English
Roozenburg N.F.M., Eekels J.	Product design:Fundamentals and methods	1995	John Wiley&Sons, LTD	English