Through a hands-on approach to creativity and product development, this course provides an overview of the basic process for new product development in a competitive marketplace by simulating the process in class. Students will work in teams to design a new product, access its feasibility and market potential, build a prototype, develop a business plan and submit a provisional patent application. Expected results from this course include the filing of a disclosure document or provisional patent with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office on an idea developed in the class. Undergraduate mechanical design or permission of instructor. Explore design analysis of machine elements subject to complex loads and environments.
Emphasis is placed on modern materials, computer analysis, theory of elasticity, and energy methods.
Failure theories, fracture, fatigue, creep as well as contact, residual, and thermal stresses will be discussed. Experimental stress analysis and corrosion issues will also be reviewed. Within each topic, emphasis is on the relationships between microscopic mechanisms and macroscopic behavior of materials. Introduces the fundamental concepts for research, design, development and implementation of knowledge-based systems. Emphasis is on the foundations of artificial intelligence, problem solving, search, and decision making with a view toward real world applications.