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Global Supply Chain Management Forum

 

Product Design Courses

Forum faculty teaches Product Development Masters-level courses each year.

Design for Manufacturability (ME 317 A & B)

Students, in close collaboration with an industry partner, work on projects to identify opportunities for improvement and develop a comprehensive product definition. Typical topics include: value engineering, quality function deployment, design for assembly and productibility, design for variety and supply chain, design for life-cycle quality, and concurrent engineering. These projects have helped corporations improve the competitiveness of their products by addressing new value propositions, life-cycle cost and quality issues.

If you are interested in participating please contact Professor Kos Ishii: ishii@stanford.edu.


Total Product Integration Engineering (ME 417)

For students aspiring to be product development executives and leaders in dfM research and education. Advanced methods and tools beyond the material covered in 217: quality design across global supply chain, robust product architecture for market variety and technology advances, product development risk management. Small teams or individuals conduct a practical project that produces either an in-depth case study or a significant enhancement to the dfM methods and tools. Enrollment limited to 16.


In addition to the above-mentioned courses, Kos Ishii, a Forum Co-director, leads a certification program "Design for Customer Value and Market Success" (the program offered through Stanford Center for Professional Development). The courses include:

 

Entrepreneurial Design for Extreme Affordability (OIT 333 and 334)

This course is a Bass Seminar. Project course jointly offered by School of Engineering and Graduate School of Business. Students apply engineering and business skills to design product prototypes, distribution systems, and business plans for entrepreneurial ventures in developing countries for a specified challenge faced by the world's poor. Topics include user empathy, appropriate technology design, rapid prototype engineering and testing, social technology entrepreneurship, business modeling, and project management. Weekly design reviews; final course presentation. Industry and adviser interaction. Limited enrollment via application; see http://extreme.stanford.edu/Extreme_Affordability/Home.html.

 

Biodesign Innovation: Needs Finding and Concept Creation (OIT 384)

First portion in a two quarter sequence. Strategies for interpreting clinical needs, researching literature, and searching patents. Clinical and scientific literature review, techniques of intellectual property analysis and feasibility, basic prototyping, and market assessment. Student entrepreneurial teams create, analyze, and screen medical technology ideas, and select projects for development.

 

Biodesign Innovation: Concept Development and Implementation (OIT 385)

Second portion of a two quarter sequence. Concept development and implementation. Early factors for success; how to prototype inventions and refine intellectual property. Lectures, guest medical pioneers, and entrepreneurs about strategic planning, ethical considerations, new venture management, and financing and licensing strategies. Cash requirements; regulatory (FDA), reimbursement, clinical, and legal strategies, and business or research plans.

 

Certificate Programs

Cardiovascular Bioengineering (ME)

This certificate program focuses on development of bioengineering principles as they apply to the cardiovascular system. The anatomy of human cardiovascular system, cardiovascular molecular and cell biology, blood fluid mechanics, disease, diagnostic methods and treatment strategies are considered. Engineering principles are applied to evaluate the performance of cardiovascular devices and treatment strategies. Approaches and problems in modeling blood flow are discussed within the context of disease research, device design, and surgical planning.


Computational Fluid Dynamics (ME)

The CFD certificate program addresses many numerical techniques that can be applied to solving fluid flow problems. This certificate program requires the completion of one core course and three electives with a letter grade indicator of 3.0 or better. This certificate is offered jointly with the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics.


Design for Customer Value and Market Success (ME)

Founded on the industry recognized Design for Manufacturability course series at Stanford, this certificate program is designed to enhance expertise and creativity in product design and development. An elective course allows flexibility in shaping the program to the area of greatest interest to individual students: product design, product development, manufacturing systems, risk analysis, or advanced dfM. Student projects are a feature of all courses.