TDSN 215 - Product Design

3 Credit: (2 lecture, 3 lab, 0 clinical) 5 Contact Hours: [TDSN 250 ]

This course provides drafting technology students with the ability to analyze, design and develop solutions to mechanical design problems. The instructional approach encourages students to conceptualize and communicate using engineering graphics, mathematics and technical science emphasizing the manufacturability of a particular new product design. Drawings are created using CAD.
OFFERED: spring semesters

Course Goals/ Objectives/ Competencies:
Goal 1: Examine product design

Explain the role of the product designer.
Demonstrate a systematic approach to creative product design.
Explain the basic manufacturing processes.
Explain product design parameters for sheet metal products.
Explain product design parameters for injection molded products.
Explain product design parameters for casted products.
Explain product design parameters for blow molded products.
Demonstrate design of a product around given restrictions.