Design Practice

By Prof. Shantanu Bhattacharya | IIT Kanpur

Learners enrolled: 4038

The course is intended for beginners in post graduate studies in Design. It can also serve well for aspiring professionals in industry who will be willing to undertake careers in the field of design.

INTENDED AUDIENCE : Students and Faculty of BE/ME/MS/BSc/MSc streas

PREREQUISITES : Nil

INDUSTRY SUPPORT: SMIL (Gurgaon), HAL Kanpur and Lucknow, Small and medium scale production industries

Summary

Course Status :	Completed
Course Type :	Elective
Duration :	8 weeks
Category :	Mechanical Engineering
Credit Points :	2
Level :	Undergraduate
Start Date :	29 Jul 2019
End Date :	20 Sep 2019
Exam Date :	29 Sep 2019 IST

Note: This exam date is subjected to change based on seat availability. You can check final exam date on your hall ticket.

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Course layout

Week 1 : Introduction to Design/Product design
Week 2 :  Stanford model of Design thinking/ Stages of engineering design of products/Introduction to Concurrent engineering
Week 3 : Concurrent engineering in Practice
Week 4 : Concurrent engineering in Practice
Week 5 : Product embodiment design(robustness of design/FMEA techniques).
Week 6 :  House of quality, Specifications (Fits and Tolerances), Axiomatic Design, Introduction to Group Technology, Creating forms and shapes.
Week 7 : Geometric transformation models, Introduction to electronics
Week 8 :  Material selection process in design, Applied Ergonomics (work systems design, Introduction to bio-mechanics)

Books and references

Nanua Singh, “Systems approach to computer integrated design and manufacturing”, Wiley India Pvt. Ltd., 4435-36/7, Ansari Road, Daryaganj, New Delhi-110002.

Karl T. Ulrich, Steven. D. Eppinger, “Product design and development”, Mcgraw hill publications.

Instructor bio

Dr. Shantanu Bhattacharya currently holds Professor position in Department of Mechanical Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India. He is also serving as Head of the Design programme at the same institute at present.

Course certificate

The course is free to enroll and learn from. But if you want a certificate, you have to register and write the proctored exam conducted by us in person at any of the designated exam centres.
The exam is optional for a fee of Rs 1000/- (Rupees one thousand only).
Date and Time of Exams: 29th September 2019, Morning session 9am to 12 noon; Afternoon Session 2pm to 5pm.
Registration url: Announcements will be made when the registration form is open for registrations.
The online registration form has to be filled and the certification exam fee needs to be paid. More details will be made available when the exam registration form is published. If there are any changes, it will be mentioned then.
Please check the form for more details on the cities where the exams will be held, the conditions you agree to when you fill the form etc.

CRITERIA TO GET A CERTIFICATE

Average assignment score = 25% of average of best 6 assignments out of the total 8 assignments given in the course.
Exam score = 75% of the proctored certification exam score out of 100
Final score = Average assignment score + Exam score

YOU WILL BE ELIGIBLE FOR A CERTIFICATE ONLY IF AVERAGE ASSIGNMENT SCORE >=10/25 AND EXAM SCORE >= 30/75.

If one of the 2 criteria is not met, you will not get the certificate even if the Final score >= 40/100.
Certificate will have your name, photograph and the score in the final exam with the breakup.It will have the logos of NPTEL and IIT Kanpur. It will be e-verifiable at nptel.ac.in/noc.
Only the e-certificate will be made available. Hard copies are being discontinued from July 2019 semester and will not be dispatched

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