Courses – Fakultet tehničkih nauka u Novom Sadu

Subject: Product design (17.P4410A)

Native organizations units: Department of Production Engineering, Chair of Machining

Type of studies	Title
Master Academic Studies	Production Engineering (Year: 1, Semester: Summer)

General information:

Category	Academic-general educative
Scientific or art field	Processes for Material Removal Processing
ECTS	5

The goal of the course is to provide students with understanding of main stages of product design and development process in conditions of free market economy. To provide students with skills required for design and development of innovative and competition capable products.

Acquired knowledge should enable designers and constructors to successfully design products which apart from the functionality should meet aesthetic requirements.

Design concept and its historical development. Importance of design. An introduction to the design process. Basic concepts of design. Universal design. Sustainable design. Concept of product. Factors influencing on the product design. Principles and elements of design. Expressive means in industrial design: the type, quality and color of the material and processing operations. Design, functionality, ergonomics, aesthetics and technologically of industrial products. Design of a new product-the product innovation process. Design sketching.The basic design cycle. Vision in Product Design. Creating a design goal. Creating product ideas and concepts. Decision and Selection. Evaluation of product features. Product simulation and testing. Communicating the results of a 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 computer practical classes students are taught to use information technologies in the field of the subject content. Apart from that regular consultations are held. Final mark is formed on the basis of class attendance, partial examination results and oral exam.

Authors	Title	Year	Publisher	Language
EGGERT, Rudolph	Engineering Design	2005	New Jersey: Pearson Prentice Hall	English
OTTO, Kevin N.	Product design	2001	New Yersey: Prentice Hall	English
SLACK, Laura	What is Product Design?	2006	Roto Vision	English
Waldemar Karwowski, Marcelo M. Soares, Neville A. Stanton	Human factors and ergonomics in consumer product design	2011	FL: CRC Press, Boca Raton	English
Ulrich, K., Eppinger, S.	Product design and Development	2016	McGraw-Hill, Chennai	English
Olofsson E., Sjolen K.	Design Sketching	2005	Keeos Design Books AB, Sweden	English
Wallace K., Clarkson J.	An introduction to the design process	1999	University of Cambridge	English