Guia docente 2016_17
Escola de Enxeñaría Industrial
Máster Universitario en Enxeñaría Industrial
 Subjects
  Industrial Design
   Contents
Topic Sub-topic
1. Industrial Design: Its nature and evolution. 1.1. The Design concept.
1.2. Theories on Design.
1.3. History of Industrial Design.
1.4. Elements of Industrial Design.
2. The industrial product. 2.1. The "industrial product" concept.
2.2. Typology of industrial products.
2.3. The product life cycle.
2.4. Product planning.
2.5. Identification of opportunities.
2.6. Detection of user needs.
2.7. Elaboration of technical specifications.
2.8. Initial product documentation.
3. Functional design and Systems Engineering.
3.1. Product functions.
3.2. Principles of functional design.
3.3. The functional design process.
3.4. Techniques for functional design.
3.5. Systems Engineering.
3.6. Functional design documentation.
3.7. Computer tools for functional design.
4. The Product Design and Development Process. 4.1. Objectives and stages in the Product Design and Development Process.
4.2. Project methods in the Product Design and Development Process.
4.3. Factors and strategies in the PDDP: analysis and synthesis.
4.4. Concept Development.
4.5. System-level Design.
4.6. Detail Design.
4.7. PDM-PLM systems.
5. Support tools for the Product Design and Development Process. 5.1. Quality Function Deployment (QFD).
5.2. TRIZ.
5.3. Value Analysis.
5.4. Robust Design.
5.5. Axiomatic Design.
5.6. Design by factors (DfX) approaches.
5.7. The Kano Model of user satisfaction.
5.8. Techniques for cost estimating.
5.9. Reverse engineering.
5.10. Additive manufacture/Rapid prototyping.
5.11. Virtual and augmented reality.
6. Ergonomics in design.
6.1. The Ergonomics concept.
6.2. Ergonomics factors in design.
6.3. Regulations about Ergonomics.
6.4. Techniques for the application of Ergonomics in the product design process.
6.5. Ergonomic evaluation of products.
6.6. Ergonomics in CAD systems.
7. Sustainability in design. 7.1. The sustainability concept.
7.2. Sustainability metrics.
7.3. Components in sustainability.
7.4. Regulations about sustainability.
7.5. Eco-design.
7.6. Life-Cycle Analysis (LCA).
7.7. Sustainability in CAD systems.
8. Tolerances: Cost and optimization. 8.1. Typology of tolerances and relationships between them.
8.2. Specification of tolerances.
8.3. Tolerance design.
8.4. Cost of tolerances.
8.5. Optimization of tolerances.
8.6. Tolerances in CAD systems.
9. Design of moulds and shaping toolings. 9.1. Types of moulds.
9.2. Elements of a mould.
9.3. Techniques for mould design.
9.4. Practical aspects in mould design.
9.5. Types of toolings and their elements.
9.6. Strategies for designing toolings.
9.7. Practical aspects in toolings design.
9.8. Simulation of moulds and toolings.
9.9. CAD tools for designing moulds and shaping toolings.
10. Other idea sources for concept design. 10.1. Industrial property documentation.
10.2. Creativity techniques.
10.3. Bionics.
10.4. Gestalt theory.
10.5. Semiotics and semantics.
10.6. Useful computer tools.
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