Product Design and Development
(15.783J / 2.739J / ESD32J)

Faculty

Steve Eppinger, Professor of Manufacturing, MIT
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Matthew Kressy, Professor of Industrial Design, RISD
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Prof. Thomas Roemer, Professor of Management, MIT
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Dr. Clifford Whitcomb, MIT
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Dr. Daniel Whitney, Senior Research Scientist, MIT
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Course first offered

Spring 1993

Most recently offered

Spring 2003

Course overview

The focus of Product Design and Development is integration of the marketing, design, and manufacturing functions of the firm in creating a new product. The course is intended to provide you with the following benefits: competence with a set of tools and methodologies for product design and development; confidence in your own abilities to create a new product; awareness of the role of multiple functions in creating a new product (e.g. marketing, finance, industrial design, engineering, production). The course covers modern tools and methods for product design and development. The cornerstone is a project in which teams of management, engineering, and industrial design students conceive, design, and prototype a physical product. Class sessions are conducted in workshop mode and employ cases and hands-on exercises to reinforce the key ideas. Topics include identifying customer needs, concept generation, product architecture, industrial design, and design-for-manufacturing.

Course website

Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sloan School of Management