1. ME886.3 Advanced Engineering Design Method
Instructor: Dr. Chris Zhang

2. Course Outline System and system design Conceptual design
Modular design
Robust design
Integrated design and control

3. Course Outline Basic concepts in system and system design
Everything is viewed as a system: a systems perspective of everything
System: what it is and how we represent everything into a system

4. Course Outline Conceptual design
The first step of design is to generate design concepts that meet customer requirements.
A systematic way to conduct conceptual design.

5. Course Outline Modular design
Computer is highly modularized but the modularization of the computer takes about 40 years.
A systematic way to modularize a product so that the time to modularize a product may be shortened.
Modularization feasibility: some types of products may not be suitable to modularization?

6. Course Outline Robust design
Robustness: An ability of a system that keeps its original function unchanged under disturbances.
Robust design: determine parameters or values of parameters such that a system can have a desired level of robustness.

7. Assessments Class discussion/presentation (Remark 2), 10%
Assignments/lab report (robust design, Remark 1), 10%
Project (Remark 3), 20%
Final exam, 60%

8. References
Nam P. Suh, The Principles of Design, Oxford University Press, 1990
G. Pahl and W.Beitz, Engineering Design: a systematic approach Second edition, Springer, 1995.
N.P. Suh, Axiomatic Design: Advances and Applications, (New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 2001).
D.G. Lee, & N.P. Suh, Axiomatic Design and Fabrication of Composite Structures: Applications in Robots, Machine Tools, and Automobiles, (US: Oxford University Press, 2006).

9. References (Contd.)
N.P. Suh, Axiomatic design theory for systems, Research in Engineering Design, 10, 1998,