PLET 481Plastic Product Development
This course provides students with an in-depth overview of the integrated new product development process. PL ET 481 Plastic Product Development (3) Current product development trends have moved toward an integrated and interdisciplinary development process that includes team members from all aspects of the corporation. This course serves as an overview of that integrated product development process. Prior to this course, students will have studied methods and processes for the detailed and structural design requirements for plastic components. In this course, the students will be taught how their detailed design process fits into the remainder of the overall product development process. This will be accomplished by traditional lectures on the process and is underscored by a semester long project in which the students will form teams, invent a product idea, and develop that idea to a prototype state.Among the topics addressed are: -Concept development and selection -Working in a interdisciplinary team environment -Gathering and organizing customer needs -Translating customer needs into product specifications -Product development economics -Prototyping methods and purpose -Industrial design -Intellectual property