Registration required in the previous summer semester. The lecture starts in first week of October.

Prerequisites:

The participation in "Integrated Product Development" requires the concurrent participation in lectures (2145156), tutorials (2145157) and project work (2145300).

Due to organizational reasons, the number of participants is limited. Thus a selection has to be made. For registration to the selection process a standard form has to be used, that can be downloaded from IPEK hompage from april to july. The selection itself is made by Prof. Albers in personal interviews.

Recommendations:

none

Workload:

regular attendance: 84 h

self-study: 288 h

Examination:

oral examination (60 minutes)

combined examination of lectures, tutorials and project work

Course content:

organizational integration: integrated product engineering model, core team management and simultaneous engineering

informational integration: innovation management, cost management, quality management and knowledge management

personal integration: team coaching and leadership management

invited lectures

Learning objectives:

The Students are able to ...

• analyze and evaluate product development processes based on examples and their own experiences.
• plan, control and evaluate the working process systematically.
• choose and use suitable methods of product development, system analysis and innovation management under consideration of the particular situation.
• prove their results.
• develop complex technical solutions in a team and to present them to qualified persons as well as non-qualified persons
• to design overall product development processes under consideration of market-, customer- and company- aspects

Klaus Ehrlenspiel - Integrierte Produktentwicklung. Denkabläufe, Methodeneinsatz, Zusammenarbeit, Hanser Verlag, 2009