Product Development and Entrepreneurship
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Product Development and Entrepreneurship Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Product Development and Entrepreneurship (subject code 3161916) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 6 divides the course into 4 units, covering 33 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3161916)Unit 1 Product Development Processes
- Characteristics of Successful Product development
- Generic development process
- Concept development: Concept generation process
- Concept selection
- Concept Embodiment
- Process flows
- Product life cycles
- The challenges of Product development
- Reverse Engineering and Redesign Product development Processes
Unit 2 Product Planning and Customer Need
- Identifying Opportunities
- Evaluate and Prioritize
- Allocate resources and scheduling tools
- Identifying customer need: Types of customer needs
- Customer need models
- Gathering Customer needs: Need Gathering Methods
- Conducting Interviews: Like Dislike Method
- Articulated-Use Method
- Product feel and Industrial Design
- Organizing and Prioritizing Needs: Grouping Interpreted needs
- Affinity Diagram
- Determining need Importance
- Customer use patterns
- Customers need Documentation
Unit 3 Product Configuration and Design for Function
- Design for function techniques
- Function analysis, and function family tree
- Design Evaluation: Design for manufacturing methodology
- Design for assembly methodology
- Additional Assembly evaluation methods
- Product evaluation: Product design for disassembly
- Evaluation of Product for disassembly aspects in products
- Design for Product maintenance
- Product specifications
Unit 4 Product Architecture and virtual Product Prototyping
- 06 Subject Code: 3161916 w.e.f
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