II2300 Processer för produktrealisering I 7,5 hp

• Idea generation, brainstorming processes and team consensus building
• Product visualization, modeling and prototyping techniques
• Consensus building outside the engineering team
• Business processes for product development
• Cost Analysis
• Customer analysis and marketing
• Technical project management
• Resource management of human, material, money and time
• Effective communication
• Dealing with failure. Failure analysis, constructively moving forward
• Building on success for continued product  and group progress

Product Realization Processes is a two part course.  The first part covers processes, skills and technologies leading to the realization of ICT products intended for the commercial marketplace.  Students will become familiar with idea generation, product design, prototyping methods and the steps necessary to show that a potential product can be commercially viable.  In addition to the technical aspects of product realization, project processes and methods are also covered.  Students will acquire skills for working with and managing groups of technical contributors, and processes for the effective application of technology development in a business environment.  These include understanding and working with business components such as marketing, and management. 

• To know how to describe and perform all required steps to visualize, model and develop an ICT product.
• To know how to lead innovation and idea generation sessions.  To be able to describe and use methods to derive maximum output from such sessions.
• To know how to quantitatively analyze business forces on ICT product realization.  This includes using cost analysis, customer analysis and resource constraints that involve human resources, material and time.

It is recommended that students enrolling in this course have taken an undergraduate course of studies in engineering or computer science.

The required textbook for this course is:

"Product Design and Development" by Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger, 4th edition, McGraw-Hill, 2007

När kurs inte längre ges har student möjlighet att examineras under ytterligare två läsår.

• INL1 - Inlämningsuppgifter, 4,5 hp, betygsskala: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F
• TEN1 - Tentamen, 3,0 hp, betygsskala: A, B, C, D, E, FX, F

Examinator beslutar, baserat på rekommendation från KTH:s handläggare av stöd till studenter med funktionsnedsättning, om eventuell anpassad examination för studenter med dokumenterad, varaktig funktionsnedsättning.

Examinator får medge annan examinationsform vid omexamination av enstaka studenter.

Passed written exam TEN1: 3 hp, Grade A-FProblem assignments  INL1: 4,5 hp, Grade A-FThe grade for the course is calculated as a weighted average where the grade E-A are given a value of 1-5. Roundhalfs up.

Mark T Smith

• Vid grupparbete har alla i gruppen ansvar för gruppens arbete.
• Vid examination ska varje student ärligt redovisa hjälp som erhållits och källor som använts.
• Vid muntlig examination ska varje student kunna redogöra för hela uppgiften och hela lösningen.

I denna kurs tillämpas EECS hederskodex, se: http://www.kth.se/eecs/utbildning/hederskodex.