COURSE NUMBER: MBA290M.1, Cross-listed with ME and SIMS
COURSE TITLE: High-Tech Product Design and
Rapid Manufacturing
UNITS OF CREDIT: 3
INSTRUCTOR: Paul Wright
E-MAIL ADDRESS:
pwright@kingkong.ME.Berkeley.edu
CLASS WEB PAGE LOCATION (HTTP URL): http://bmi.berkeley.edu/html/Me221/index_me221.htm
MEETING DAY(S)/TIME: Monday and Wednesday,
9:30-11:00 AM
PREREQUISITE(S): None
CLASS FORMAT:
Lectures and guest speakers but the main format is the group project, trade
show, business plan and feedback from VCs
REQUIRED
BASIS FOR
FINAL GRADE: At least 60% on group project
This joint course with the engineering school is
project oriented and has in the past created prototypes that go onto win
business plan competitions and create real companies. This is chance to work
with four other colleagues and begin a product in the general 'smart dust'
space
OVERVIEW
http://bmi.berkeley.edu/html/Me221/index_me221.htm
PREVIOUS "PRODUCTS"
http://bmi.berkeley.edu/html/Me221/me221_tradeshows.htm
INSTRUCTOR
http://kingkong.me.berkeley.edu/people/paulpage.html
SUMMARY
This is a "manufacturing survey course" that
deals with all aspects of the manufacturing processes relevant to today's
production of consumer electronics or electro-mechanical devices. It also aims
to provide a balanced view for the "Management of Technology". The
course guides students through a product development cycle, and emphasizes
modern Internet-based commercial activities between designers, rapid
prototyping services and full-scale manufacturers.
In this course we will cover product concept, consumer
ethnography, marketing, product design, modeling, rapid prototyping and ending
in the final project Tradeshow. The class features guest speakers An especially valuable way of dealing with this material has
been a semester-long class project. This places significant emphasis on group
interactions. Students will design and prototype a new consumer electronic
product based on RFIDs. Some connections to the Mica
Mote (and TinyOS) used in previous Tradeshows may
also arise.
Finding a useful (and commercially viable) application
for the RFIDs, creating a functional
package/enclosure, and giving a demonstration of its use, are key to the course.
Development of a `marketing plan' and a `ramp-up to manufacturing' scenario is
a vital part of the course.