Product Design and Development 6th Edition by Karl Ulrich

Professors that offer a project-based course will find this text ideal because of the structured, step-by-step design and development methods in each chapter. The chapter on Robust Design (also called the Taguchi method) explains the techniques for design of experiments that minimizes the effects of variations on product performance. The chapter on patents and intellectual property explains what is patentable, how the patenting process works, licensing issues, and the many types of intellectual property.?ISBN-10:?0078029066ISBN-13:?978-0078029066?