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‡ Readings identified with ‡ symbol will be handed out in class.
The class textbook is:
Ulrich, Karl T. and Steven D. Eppinger. Product Design and Development. 2nd ed., Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill, 2000.
Reading Packet Table of Contents
| Reading TitleS |
SourceS |
| ‡ Course Syllabus |
Eppinger |
| Two Sample Project Proposals |
Prior Classes |
| ‡ Winners 2001: The Best Product Designs of the Year |
Annual Design Awards, Business Week, June 25, 2001. |
| How to Listen to Consumers |
Solo, Sally. "How to listen to consumers." Fortune. 127, no. 1 (January 11, 1993): 77-78. |
| Turning Designers into Managers |
Welch, David. "Turning Designers into Managers." Business Week, December 3, 2001, pp. 28D-28H. |
| Design for Assembly in Action |
Dewhurst, Peter and Geoffrey Boothroyd, "Design for Assembly in Engineering." Assembly Engineering 1987 (January): 64-68. |
| The Taguchi Approach to Parameter Design |
Diane M. Bryne and Shin Taguchi, "The Taguchi Approach to Parameter Design." Quality Progress 20 (1987): 19-26. |
| Boost Your Marketing ROI with Experimental Design |
Almquist, Eric and Gordon Wyner. "Boost Your Marketing ROI with Experimental Design." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 9 (October 2001): 135-141, reprint #R01019K. |
| Introduction to Pantents and Other Intellectual Property |
Pressman, David. Patent It Yourself. 3rd ed., Berkeley, CA: Nolo Press, 1991, chapter 1. ISBN: 0873371674. |
| Braun AG: The KF 40 Coffee Machine |
Karen J. Freeze, Karen J. "Braun AG: The KF 40 Coffee Machine." Boston, MA: Harvard Business School, 1990. Case No. 9-990-001. |
| ‡ @issue: The Journal of Business and Design |
Journal of Business and Design 7, no.1 (2001).
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| Paper Versus Polystyrene: A Complex Choice |
Hocking, Martin B. "Paper Versus Polystyrene: A Complex Choise." Science 251 (February 1, 1991): 504-505. |
| Letters: Paper Versus Polystyrene - Environmental Impact |
Science, 252 (June 7, 1991): pp. 1361-1363. Letters in reaction to above article |
| Strategies for Green Design |
U.S. Congress, Office of Technology Assessment. Green Products by Design: Choices for a Cleaner Environment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1992, pp. 53-63.
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| A Declaration of Sustainability |
Hawken, Paul. "A Declaration of Sustainability." Utne Reader September/October (1993): 54-61. |
| Innovation at the Speed of Information |
Eppinger, Steven D. "Innovation at the Speed of Information." Harvard Business Review 79, no. 1 (January 2001): 149-158, reprint #R0101L.
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| Is the Make-Buy Decision Process a Core Competence? |
Charles H. Fine and Daniel E. Whitney, MIT Working Paper, April 1996. |