Rapid Commercialization

Catalog description

Techniques to help get plastic products to market quicker and to build solids and surface modeling skills. PL ET 468 Rapid Commercialization (3) The educational objective of this course is to develop the student's ability in using techniques to reduce the time to design a product and get it into production. The course objectives are to enable students to understand how to evaluate the differing points of view of each group during the concurrent engineering of plastic products and to analyze various rapid prototyping and tooling methods to determine their applicability to plastic products. Several simulations packages will be used to show their use in the preliminary design stages. During the course students will be using concepts studied earlier in plastic part design. Student competency is assessed by graded quizzes, examinations, homework, and special assignments. The course is offered once per year as a technical elective with an enrollment of 15 to 20 students.