ME110: Introduction to New Product Development
Class Meetings Spring 2004:
MWF 10:00-11:00 am
3106 Etcheverry Hall
Course Objectives:
This course provides an operational experience in the development of innovative and realistic customer-driven engineered products. Design concepts and techniques are introduced, and the student's design ability is developed in a design or feasibility study chosen to emphasize ingenuity and provide wide coverage of engineering and business topics. Innovative thinking is nurtured. Design optimization and social, economic, and political implications are included. Both individual and group oral presentations are made, and participation in a research seminar or conference is required. Students can expect to depart the semester understanding new product development processes as well as useful tools, techniques and organizational structures that support new product development practice.
Teaching Staff:
Prof. Alice
Agogino, Room 5136 Etcheverry Hall, x2-6450, Office Hours after class: MWF 11:00-noon
aagogino@socrates..berkeley.edu
Prof. Agogino is the Roscoe and Elizabeth Hughes Professor of Mechanical Engineering at UC Berkeley and has served in a number of administrative positions, including Associate Dean of Engineering and Faculty Assistant to the Executive Vice Chancellor & Provost in Educational Development and Technology. Her research interests include design theory and methods, sensor fusion, computer-aided design, design databases, educational technologies, digital libraries, on-line communities, gender & technology, green design, and MEMS design. She runs a digital library of science, technology, engineering and mathematics courseware at www.smete.org and www.needs.org.
Teaching Assistants:
Jessy Baker, jbaker@uclink.berkeley.edu
Shankaran Sitarama, sshankar@euler.me.berkeley.edu
Information and Syllabus:
The course website is on Berkeley's Blackboard Course Management System. You will need to register in Blackboard and the class to have access.
Below, there are several documents concerning the course you can download.
Final Projects 2004
- Adaptive Technologies: Weather protection system for people in wheelchairs.
- Ez Tran: A Portable device assisting in the transfer process of a person with disabilities, such as from a wheel chair to an airplane seat.
- Freddie - the Laptop Cord Holder: A device to stabilize laptop computer cables.
- Leak Lock Umbrella: An umbrella with an encasing that prevents leakage of rainwater when not in use.
- Non-Lethal Projectiles: A system to effectively disable persons without inflicting serious physical injury.
- Object Locator: A device that assists the user in locating misplaced personal items by remote detection.
- Second Snowboard Stance: A rotating snowboard-binding insert that includes a "walk mode" and the ability to quickly adjust binding angle.
- Shift-O-Matic: Easy to use automatic/manual bicycle shifting system.
Tradeshow Posters
Last updated: 6 May 2004 by Alice Agogino