PUPD
2072
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201130
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Faculty:
David Bergman,
Erika Doering
This course intends to introduce the real life aspects of how a product is made, its global and local impact on outlives, the environment and the power of product designers to make positive change. The combination of sustainable design practices with practical mechanical engineering adds up to new business economics and smart design principles. Through this integration of processes, the importance of the designer's role in creating and producing a great product through responsible, educated and ethical decisions and specifications will be emphasized. The outcome will serve to both empower you as a designer and to provide you with the necessary marketable skills for today's design profession. We will be studying a familiar cutting edge group of products for their intended uses and features. We will disassemble them, to learn how they function and how they were manufactured. Building on our introduction to sustainability and eco-design, we will then analyze the products' whole life cycle from its manufacture to its delivery, use and end of life. From this exercise, we will have the basis to redesign a better solution for these products using a framework of smart design approaches. The class will be team taught and consist of a series of lectures, ongoing project work and field trips to working manufacturers.Open to: PRD and ENS majors only; others by permission
