Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Design Methodologies

Code

10495

Academic unit

Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia

Department

Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica e Industrial

Credits

6.0

Teacher in charge

António José Freire Mourão, João Manuel Vicente Fradinho

Weekly hours

4

Teaching language

Português

Objectives

To know the main approaches to support the development of Engineering Design in a general viewpoint.

Subject matter

Analysis and synthesis in engineering design.

The main stages of the design development process.

The principles of design of N.P. Suh (Axiomatic Design).

The Theory of Inventing Problem Solving (TRIZ/TIPS).

The Quality Function Deployment - QFD.

The Design Structure Matrix - DSM.

The Decision Matrix.

The Systematic Design of Pahl & Beitz.

Some current paradigms of engineering design: Life cycle; Concurrent Engineering; Design for X (DFX); the Kano''''s space.

 

Bibliography

-Park, G.-J. (2007). Analytic Methods for Design Practice. London: Springer-Verlag

-Introduction to Axiomatic Design (Daniel Frey classes)

-Fradinho J, Mourão A, Gabriel-Santos A, Cavique M, Gonçalves-Coelho A. An axiomatic design interpretation on the use of response surface methodology to solve coupled designs. Proc. ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition. 2015

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