I. Class
Mechanical Engineering Department (3 credits)
II. Room
工學院綜合大樓room
III. Time
Tuesday 2:20-3:10 p.m.; 3:30-4:20 p.m.; 4:30-5:20 p.m.
IV. Instructor
A. Name: Dr. Yuan Mao Huang
B. Phone no: (02)-3366-2691
C. E-mail: ymhuang@ntu.edu.tw
D. Office: 工學院綜合大樓room 709
E. Office Hours:
1. Tuesday 1:45-2:15 p.m.; Thursday 1:45-2:15 p.m.
2. leave message
V. Textbook:

VI. Reference:
Lumsdaine, E. and Lumsdaine, M, 1995, Creative Problem Solving – Thinking skills for a challenging world, McGraw-Hill International
Ulrich, K. T., and Eppinger, S. D., 2000, Product Design and Development, second ed., McGraw-Hill Company.
Ullman, D. G., 1992, The Mechanical Design Process, McGraw-Hill Company.
Burgess, J. H., 1989, Human Factors in Industrial Design - The Designer‘s Companion, TAB
Cross Nigel, 1994, Engineering Design Methods - Strategies for Product Design, second ed., John Wiley & Sons.
French, M. J., 1971, Conceptual Design for Engineers, second ed., Springer - Verlag
Lindbeck, J. R. and Wygant, R. M., 1995, Product Design and Manufacture, Prentice-Hall International, Inc.
Middenddorf, W. H., 1990, Design of Devices and Systems, Second Ed. Revised and Expanded, Marcel Decker, Inc.
Pahl, G. and Beitz, W., 1996, Engineering Design - A Systematic Approach, Edited by Ken Wallace, Springer – Verlag
Baxter, Mike, 1995, Product Design- Practical methods for the systematic development of new products, Chapman & Hall
VII. Assistant
VIII. Objective
1. Introduction
2. Creative thinking and improvement of creativity
3. Visualization and Sketching
4. Information Process System of Human
5. Method of idea generation
6. Decision making and evaluation
7. Development of design
8. Design process
9. Development Planning
10. Documentation and communication
11. Conceptual design
12. Function assembly and disassembly
13. Invention and Patent
IX. Grade
A. Homework (70%)
1. problems of homework from lecture per week
2. format
a. "A4" size paper, use one side only
b. Microsoft Word
c. turn in print-out (hard copy) every week
d. turn in your disk or transfer your file
B. Creative Development of a device and presentation (30%)
X. Student Information:
A. index card
XI. General Notice
A. Notice:
1. active discussion
2. turn in all materials at the end of the semester