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UNIT 1 DESIGN FUNDAMENTAL- The design process – Considerations of good design - Morphology of Design – Design Drawings , Computer Aided Engineering – Designing of codes and standards – Concurrent Engineering – Product life cycle – Technological Forecasting – Market Identification– Competition Bench marking – Systems Engineering – Life Cycle Engineering – Human Factors in Design – Industrial Design. 

UNIT 2 DESIGN METHODS-  Creativity and Problem Solving – Creativity methods – Theory of Inventive Problem Solving (TRIZ) - product Design Specifications– Conceptual design – Decision Theory – Decision Tree – Evaluation methods - Embodiment Design – Product Architecture Configuration Design - Parametric Design – Role of models in designs - Mathematical Modeling – Simulation – Geometric Modeling – Finite Element Modeling – Optimization – Search Methods – Geometric Programming – Structural and Shape Optimization. 

UNIT 3 MATERIAL SELECTION PROCESSING AND DESIGN- Material Selection Process – Economics – Cost Vs Performance – Weighted property Index – Value Analysis – Role of Processing in Design – Classification of Manufacturing Process – Design for Manufacture – Design for Assembly – Designing for castings, Forging, Metal Forming, Machining and Welding – Residual Stresses – Fatigue, Fracture and Failure. 

UNIT 4 PROBABILITY CONCEPTS IN DESIGN FOR RELIABILITY- Probability – Distributions – Test of Hypothesis – Design of Experiments – Reliability Theory – Design for Reliability – Reliability centered Maintenance – Robust Design Failure mode Effect Analysis. 

UNIT 5 LEGAL AND ETHICAL ISSUES IN DESIGN AND QUALITY ENGINEERING- Introduction – The origin of laws – Contracts – Liability – Tort law – Product liability – Protecting intellectual property – Legal and ethical domains – Codes of ethics – Solving ethical conflicts– case studies. Total Quality Concept – Quality Assurance – Statistics Process Control – Taguchi Methods – Robust Design – Failure Model Effect Analysis. Max: 45 Hrs.