Advanced Engineering Design & Product Development Certificate

This certificate is aimed at updating and upgrading skills and competencies for identifying and developing factors and utilizing high fidelity tools from different disciplines for researching, designing and managing advanced design concepts for new or improved materials, products, structures, processes, equipment and systems with potential for intellectual property protection and commercialization.

This program is targeted at engineers/scientists at various positions in engineering and scientific industries such as aerospace, defense, mechanical, electrical, electronic, civil, chemical, materials, biomedical engineering and scientific industries.

Course 1 - Advanced Design Process
This course prescribes complete integrated design process or total design process for developing advanced concepts for new or improved products, materials, structures, components, processes, equipment or machine, subsystems and systems to achieve reliable function at low cost. At the completion of the course participants will have learned contemporary design approaches for developing elegant and high fidelity concepts; when to make cost effective models and/or prototypes during the design process; and when and how to obtain and handle huge amount of information that are generated during the engineering the design process; how to package the design information in the form design documentation. (3.2 CEUs)

$995

Course 2 - Advanced Design Methodologies
The course provides set of higher fidelity tools from different disciplines for use in each phase and stage of the design process for concept design and evaluation facilitating development of unconventional configurations for new or improved products, materials, structures, processes, equipment, processing plants; plant, factory and equipment layouts; subsystems and systems. The objectives are to prescribe proven and novel techniques (a) for rapid generation of new or original ideas to produce elegant, advanced, and patentable design concepts, (b) for adapting or modifying existing ideas to produce innovative and patentable design concepts, and (c) to be used to contribute valuable ideas/concepts for products, materials, processes, components, equipment, subsystems, systems in all engineering and scientific fields. (6.0 CEUs)

$1795

Course 3 - Innovative Research Methods for Products, Processes and Systems Development and Commercialization
The course explores novel and innovative techniques for rapid generation of new or original product ideas or modifies existing ideas to produce elegant, competitive and patentable design concepts. The aim of the course is to provide set of skills for designing and commercializing new or improved products and inventions. The objectives of the course are (a) to acquire techniques for searching for new product ideas, (b) to assess and evaluate feasibility of new product ideas, (c) to employ new techniques for designing new products, (d) to protect new design ideas, (e) to acquire techniques for licensing inventions. (2.0 CEUs)

$795

Course 4 - Managing Research, Design & Product Development.
The course is designed for managing the research, design and product development activities for new or improved products, processes, equipment or systems for purposes of commercialization. The aim is to provide skill set and competences for assessing, forecasting, planning, coordinating, directing, and supervising research, design and product development for purposes of commercialization. The objectives of the course are (a) to assess and forecast new basic research findings to be used to develop new applications for next generation products, materials, processes, equipment and systems, (b) to plan, prepare and communicate effectively regarding research, design and product development activities to internal teams, departments, and top management, (c) to effectively supervise research, design and product development teams (d) plan and prepare research, design and product development budget, and (e) to successfully manage contract research with external research laboratories, academic research centers and individual inventors or designers/scientists including Professors. (2.8 CEUs)

$995