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22-Mec-B5 Product Design and Development: May 2013

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  1. Question 1 The Design Process Applied to a Chosen Product
  2. Question 2 Diversity and the Design Process
  3. Question 3 New Product Development Versus Refinement of an Existing Product
  4. Question 4 Communicating Design Information and Optimizing a Design
  5. Question 5 Securing Intellectual Property in a Design
  6. Question 6 Design for Manufacturing, Design for the Environment and Universal Design
  7. Question 7 Manufacturing Route Selection for a Door Handle

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Paper format. National Exams, May 2013 — 07-Mec-B5, Product Design & Development. Three hours; open book; no calculator permitted. Question 1 is compulsory and carries 40 % of the paper; four of the remaining six questions are chosen, each worth 15 %, for 100 % in total, and only the first five questions appearing in the answer book are marked. Note 5 of the paper states that most questions require an essay answer or the use of tables, figures and charts, and that clarity and organisation of the answer carry marks; Note 1 invites the candidate to state any assumption made where a question is open to interpretation, and that licence is used several times below with each use flagged. All seven printed questions are worked here — 130 marks of material against the 100 marks a candidate would actually attempt — so that the set serves as a complete study resource.

Reference texts. Ulrich & Eppinger, Product Design and Development (McGraw-Hill) — the framework text for this exam code, and the source of the generic development process, the needs-to-metrics translation, concept screening and concept scoring used throughout; Dieter & Schmidt, Engineering Design (McGraw-Hill) for the specification, materials and process-selection material; Pahl & Beitz, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach (Springer) for systematic concept generation and the function structure; Boothroyd, Dewhurst & Knight, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly (CRC) for the design-for-assembly and design-for-manufacture rules; Ashby, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design (Butterworth-Heinemann) and Kalpakjian & Schmid, Manufacturing Engineering and Technology (Pearson) for the process-selection charts and cost models. Canadian context is taken from the Patent Act, Industrial Design Act, Trademarks Act and Copyright Act (Canadian Intellectual Property Office), from CSA standards (notably CSA B651 Accessible design for the built environment), from the Canada Consumer Product Safety Act, and from Engineers Canada / EGBC guidance on professional practice and on equity, diversity and inclusion in the profession.