B.E. (Automobile Engineering) Product Design and Development Syllabus - Mumbai University 2026
The University has moved this degree onto NEP 2020 one year at a time. The first and second years are NEP 2020 syllabi; the third and fourth years are still examined on the REV-2019 'C' Scheme, which is what the University sets for them this year.
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Syllabus for Product Design and Development
Module 1
- Need for developing products, The importance of Engineering and Industrial design, The design process, Relevance of product lifecycle issues in design, Societal considerations in Engineering and Industrial Design, Generic product development process, Various phases of product development, Planning for products,Establishingmarkets-marketsegments-relevanceofmarketresearch.
Module 2
- The design processes, Descriptive and prescriptive design models, Concept development & evaluation, Pugh‘s total design activity model, Concept generation and selection method, Embodiment design, Product architecture,and Steps in developing productarchitecture.
Module 3
- Identifying customer needs, Voice of Customer (VoC), Customer populations, Hierarchy of human needs, Need gathering methods, Establishing engineering characteristics, Competitive benchmarking, Quality Function Deployment (QFD), House of Quality (HoQ), Product design specification, Development of product design with specifications using QFD, Relevant case studies.
Module 4: Creative thinking, Creativity and problem-solving methods, Creative thinking methods, Brainstorming technique, Gorden technique, Check listing technique, Synectic technique, Morphological Analysis, and Attribute Listing technique. Generating design concepts, Systematic methods of designing.
- respective lecture hours mentioned in the curriculum.
Text Books
- 1 Anita Goyal, Karl T Ulrich, Steven D Eppinger, ―Product Design and Development,‖ 4th Edition, 2009, Tata McGraw-Hill Education, ISBN-10-007 14679-9.
- 2 Kevin Otto, Kristin Wood, ―Product Design,‖ Indian Reprint 2004, Pearson Education, ISBN9788177588217.
- 1 Clive L.Dym, Patrick Little, ―Engineering Design: A Project-based Introduction,‖ rd
- 3 Edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2009, ISBN978-0-470-22596-7.
- 2 George E. Dieter, Linda C.Schmidt, ―Engineering Design,‖ 4th Edition, McGraw Hill International Edition, 2009, ISBN978-007-127189-9. nd
- 3 Yousef Haik, T. M. M. Shahin, ―Engineering Design Process,‖ 2 Edition Reprint, Cengage Learning, 2010, ISBN 0495668141 65
Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.E. (Automobile Engineering) under REV-2019 'C' Scheme, in force from the academic year 2022-23. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.
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