The course is designed to provide engineering students a view of optimization as a tool for engineering decision making. Students will be given a fundamental introduction to the optimization ...

QFD (quality function deployment) is a family of tools that can help engineers during the early stages of product development. A method of assessing options for new product definition, QFD can help ...

At the beginning of the design phase, it is important to enumerate the exact customer requirements that your design must satisfy. The Product Design Specification tool, or PDS, is a tool that is ...

According to the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), industrial design strives to elevate both the function and aesthetics of all things made, from automobiles and medical instruments to ...

How do you ensure that you bring the products your customers want, to market, how and when they want them? These are the questions that R&D and Engineering executives ask every day. A recent report by ...

Though nearly everyone on Earth engages with their work on a daily basis, a product designer’s job description can seem mysterious and opaque to people outside the design or tech space. On a ...

A light fixture made of seaweed. A dreamy, psychedelic laundry machine. A hairy bench fashioned out of agave leaves. All of these objects appear in the new book Designed for Life: The World’s Best ...