Integrated Product Design
Keywords |
Classification |
Keyword |
OFICIAL |
Production |
Instance: 2019/2020 - 1S ![Requerida a integração com o Moodle Ícone do Moodle](/feup/pt/imagens/MoodleIcon)
Cycles of Study/Courses
Acronym |
No. of Students |
Study Plan |
Curricular Years |
Credits UCN |
Credits ECTS |
Contact hours |
Total Time |
MIEM |
47 |
Syllabus since 2006/2007 |
5 |
- |
6 |
45,5 |
162 |
Teaching language
Suitable for English-speaking students
Objectives
Integration of multidisciplinary expertise in creating new products / services with the objective of learning a set of strategies and tools for systematic development of new products/services, in an environment of teamwork
Learning outcomes and competences
At the end of the course the student will acquire the following competences and be able to :
- Define and enumerate new concepts such as incremental and radical innovation , context, rate of mortality of new projects
- Define and discuss product planning versus company strategy
- Develop and apply main tools of product planning : mission statement and product charter
- Describe structured models of product development and name its historic perspective
- Understand product/service development as a system through the adoption of holystic approaches
- Understand importance of customer involvement in new product development and service co-creation
- Use different tools to gather information
- Classify and compare different needs/problems
- Integrate data/information and translate them into a specification of the product/service
- Discuss the use of functional analysis. Define different types of product architectures
- Use different structured tools to optimize the search of creative solutions
- Problem decomposition into simpler subsystems
- Combine different solutions for different subsystems to obtain alternative concepts and product service architectures
- Distinguish and understand the limitations of linear models of product development and importance of flexible processes that recognize dynamic nature of the context
- Define aggregate project plan
- Discuss and understand the integrated nature of new product development in portfolios and programs
- Use the aggregate project plan as a visualization tool to allocate resources and manage different types of innovation projects in a more efficient and effective way
- Define and describe new philosophies of NPD : design thinking and lean thinking
- Define new instruments to sense new ways of detecting discontinuities and new opportunities of innovating
- Apply new tools of sensing opportunities : corporate entrepreneuship, organizational slack and collaborative networks
- Discuss and understand the concept of customer experience and how to involve customers in the service co-creation
- Understand and discuss tools of service design innovation
- Apply knowledge through the discussion of case studies depicting real business situations
- Apply and synthetize knowledge through a team project, from the identification of a business opportunity to the generation of a concept and prototype
Working method
Presencial
Pre-requirements (prior knowledge) and co-requirements (common knowledge)
N.A
Program
- Introduction to the course content
and teaching methodology
- Concepts of innovation and design spaces
- Strategic product planning
- Structured models of development
- Customer experience modelling and involvement
- Concept generation and system architecture
- Flexible processes of product development
- Management of project portfolios and programs
- New approaches for innovation: design thinking and lean thinking
- Sensing opportunities and knowledge networks
- Service design and innovation
- Case studies
- Team project
Mandatory literature
Fernandes,Antonio Augusto;
Desenvolvimento de novos produtos e serviços. Modelos e Estratégias para inovar, Lidel , 2017. ISBN: 978-989-752-291-8
Karl Ulrich ,Steven Eppinger;
Product Design and Development, McGraw Hill International , 2008
Teaching methods and learning activities
The UC uses a PBL-project based learning approach, based on the development of a project to create a new product or service corresponding to a business opportunity identified by the team (4-6 students) or proposed by a company, using the models and tools taught in the course. Classes will comprise three components:
- Lectures on new product/service development concepts and methodologies.
- Discussion of cases
- Project follow-up and discussion, with intermediary and final presentations of new concept developed
Evaluation Type
Distributed evaluation without final exam
Assessment Components
Designation |
Weight (%) |
Participação presencial |
30,00 |
Trabalho escrito |
70,00 |
Total: |
100,00 |
Amount of time allocated to each course unit
Designation |
Time (hours) |
Elaboração de relatório/dissertação/tese |
119,00 |
Frequência das aulas |
49,00 |
Total: |
168,00 |
Eligibility for exams
The students should demonstrate active participation in all the above components of evaluation
Calculation formula of final grade
The final mark is based on the following criteria:
- 30 % Class attendance and participation on presentation and discussion of case studies and progress reports relating to assignments planned:
- 70% Presentation and discussion of the final report of the project to develop an innovative product or service
Examinations or Special Assignments
NA
Internship work/project
NA
Special assessment (TE, DA, ...)
NA
Classification improvement
NA