CHEME 5610

Concepts of Chemical Engineering Product Design

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2024-2025.

Chemical products range from specialty chemicals, biologic based products, to electromechanical devices that perform chemical transformations. This course integrates the steps of chemical product design from brainstorming and concept selection through design and manufacturing while recognizing the overlap with Lean operating principles. Students will be taught house of quality, robust design, failure modes and effects analysis. Other topics include multi-generational product planning, FMEA, sustainability and product life-cycle analysis, basic economic evaluations, process mapping, cycle time content and balance, lead-time assessment and management, quality performance analysis and remediation, entrepreneurship and new business development, as well as patents, and intellectual property.  Case studies will illustrate concepts.

When Offered Fall.

Course Attribute (CU-SBY)

• Identify and analyze potential market segments in support of a new product design and commercialization.
• Prioritize customer requirements and relate requirements to product engineering characteristics using the house of quality approach.
• Demonstrate DOE and Taguchi methods (also known as Robust Design) to improve product quality in the earliest stages of product design.
• Demonstrate failure modes and effects analysis on a new product design.
• Analyze and project financial performance for a new commercialized product.

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