Product Design

This course aims to prepare students for developing their careers in Product Design and Product development. The course will give students capability to understand the needs of customers in terms of product performance, usability, manufacture, assembly, serviceability, aesthetics and value for money, and develop products that have the necessary competitive features to win and hold markets internationally. This course is designed to educate delegates about the process of designing products/systems and look at problems differently to provide innovative solutions.

The specific course aims are:

• To encourage delegates to take note of customers’ needs and aspirations, creating innovative concepts and developing them into value added products.
• To impart the skills and attitudes to the delegates to enable them to work effectively in a modern multi disciplinary design team.
• To make delegates acquire a sound knowledge and understanding of design methodology, product semantics, concept generation, enhancement, evaluation and selection methods, materials and manufacturing processes and learn to communicate design solutions.
• To make delegates work on design projects, integrating engineering studies, human factors, computer modelling, drawing and rendering and develop the ability to creatively tackle and solve a range of design problems.

To expose delegates to the computer based engineering design, analysis and simulation tools.