Product Design and Development
Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger
Fourth Edition, McGraw-Hill, New York, 2008.

Table of Contents

1    Introduction

2    Development Processes and Organizations

3    Product Planning

4    Identifying Customer Needs

5    Product Specifications

6    Concept Generation

7    Concept Selection

8    Concept Testing

9    Product Architecture

10    Industrial Design

11    Design for Manufacturing

12    Prototyping

13    Robust Design

14    Patents and Intellectual Property

15    Product Development Economics

16    Managing Projects

 

A web site supports the textbook, providing students and instructors with product development resources related to the book.

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