Exploring the Design Space and Optimizing the Design

Description

Turn that brilliant concept and into a viable, market-ready solution by examining your design concept from multiple perspectives. Learn to review the requirements and components of your concept in greater detail. By optimizing the design space and streamlining the design process, you can increase efficiency and actually create more value for your customers.

This course will teach you how to take a raw concept and create a polished design. Avoid the pitfalls of hurrying the process or neglecting to examine your concept from all angles. Learn how to research competitor products in depth; collaborate with customer experts; and perform patent searches—all of which help to move your design one step closer to market.

Who Should Enroll in This Course?

This course is indispensable for individuals who design, develop and market products or services. This includes engineers, project managers, marketing and product line managers, design managers, even hands-on executives who are involved with system design processes.

Enrollment

To register, contact an Enrollment Counselor at info@ecornell.com or 1-866-326-7635 (+1-607-330-3200 from outside the United States).

Certificate programs are eligible for eCornell Payment Plans. Discounts are available for military personnel, veterans, and Cornell University Alumni. eCornell programs are not eligible for financial aid or federal Pell Grants. Contact an enrollment counselor for more information.

Certificate Information

This course can be applied toward the following certificates:
 

• Master Certificate in Systems Design and Project Leadership
• Customer-Focused Product and Service Design

CEUs

Project Management Institute Professional Development Units

This course qualifies for 6.00 Professional Development Units (PDUs) from the Project Management Institute (PMI) for Professional Project Managers (PMPs) seeking ongoing education and professional development for continuing certification. eCornell is a Global Registered Education Provider of PMI. PDUs are designated as Category 3.

Additional Information

Course Format

eCornell takes a problem-based approach to learning, and our courses are built around realistic case studies and scenarios. All courses are self-paced, and are facilitated by an eCornell instructor, who leads the online discussions and is available to answer any questions about the course content.

This course contains the following modules:

• Explore the Design Space.
• Where we are in the Process.
• Reasons to explore.
• Discover and Organize Concepts.
• Clarify the Problem and Decompose Functions.
• Brainstorm and Research.
• Organize, Prune, and Expand Concept Fragments.
• Combine Concepts to Create Solutions.
• Generate Integrated Concepts.
• List Subsystems.

Benefits to the Learner

Learners who complete this course will be able to:

• Explain the reasons for exploring a broad design space.
• Generate integrated design solutions from initial concepts.
• Avoid design flaws.
• Use a trade study (tradeoff analysis) technique to optimize design choices.

Authoring Faculty

Peter L. Jackson Ph.D., Professor, Director

Sponsoring School

Cornell University’s College of Engineering

Total Learning Time

Approximately 5-6 hours per week over a period of 2 weeks.

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