After successful completion of the course, students are able to develop a product methodically starting from product specifications, functions, working principles and solutions all the way to varaints and assessing them in order to find the solution meeting best the specifications.
Using examples from industry the application of the methods and techniques will be demonstrated. Additionally real product developments tasks aiming at new solutions for a given problem have to be solved during that course.
Systematic approach to the development and design of technical systems and products - VDI 2221
Creativity methods
The students develop step-by-step an own (simple) product (e.g. packaging) and learn that way all the methodical steps.
At the end a prototype will be built.
