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About IPD course | Projects samples |
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IPD course focuses on team-based integrated product development among
engineering, business, and design disciplines. The course is open
to seniors and graduate students in engineering, industrial and communication
design, and MBA students. The course generally has about a dozen students
from each discipline. It consists of four modules including identifying,
understanding, conceptualizing and introducing a product opportunity.
In recent years we have partnered with industrial sponsors to address
a customer opportunity, resulting in patent applications. The emphasis
in the course is on the early, "fuzzy" stage of product
development. The course gives structure to these stages and helps
direct the process to be more efficient downstream. Students are expected
to produce four phase written and oral reports. At the end of the
semester the team will develop a form prototype, function prototype,
marketing plan and manufacturing plan for the product. The course
is built around the text from Profs. Cagan and Vogel, Creating
Breakthrough Products. Recent
corporate sponsors include:
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