Shivashankar Huddar
*,
Prashant Achari
,
Sanjay Eligar
,
Uma Mudenagudi
,
Nalini Iyer
,
A. B. Raju
,
Arun Giriyapur
,
B. B. Kotturshettar
,
Nitin Kulkarni
,
Ashok Shettar
- B.V. B College Of Engineering And Technology, Hubli, Karnataka 580031, India
Abstract
This paper discusses enhancement in development of project-based 'product design and realization (PDR)' course for undergraduate students. The course offered at an early stage of the curriculum is aimed at providing engineering design and product realization skills to the students. Creating an appropriate learning experience in product design is challenging owing to its multidisciplinary nature. An innovative multidisciplinary design-to-realization approach is adopted in this course and student teams are required to design and build working prototypes for predefi ned products. This course brings a new perspective to the multidisciplinary approach to teaching product design. Introduction of project based design experience at an early level provides students with an opportunity to develop capabilities to design complex systems in the future. PDR (a 3 credit course) introduced to electrical and mechanical sciences students (EC, EE, IT, IP, A&R, ME) at fourth semester (2nd year) level of engineering in BVBCET, Hubli. The implementation of course is analyzed with respect to attainment of the outcomes (ABET a-k). Also to illustrate the success of the course, the work of students in the form of Product at the end of course is included in results for validation.
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