22-Mec-B5 Product Design and Development: December 2019

Paper format. National Exams, December 2019 — 16-Mec-B5 Product Design and Development. Three (3) hours; OPEN BOOK; a Casio or Sharp approved calculator is permitted. Question 1 must be completed and is worth 40 %; four (4) of the six (6) remaining questions are chosen, each worth 15 %, for a total of 100 %. The first five questions appearing in the answer book are the ones marked. Most questions require an essay answer or the use of tables, figures and charts, and clarity and organisation of the answer are explicitly marked. All seven questions are solved here.

Reference texts.

• K. T. Ulrich and S. D. Eppinger, Product Design and Development, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill — the framework text for this exam code (concept generation and selection, product architecture, DFM, development processes).
• G. E. Dieter and L. C. Schmidt, Engineering Design, 5th ed., McGraw-Hill — design process, decision methods, cost evaluation.
• G. Pahl, W. Beitz, J. Feldhusen and K.-H. Grote, Engineering Design: A Systematic Approach, 3rd ed., Springer — requirement lists and systematic embodiment design.
• G. Boothroyd, P. Dewhurst and W. Knight, Product Design for Manufacture and Assembly, 3rd ed., CRC Press — the DFA index and process cost models used in Questions 1 and 6.
• M. F. Ashby, Materials Selection in Mechanical Design, 5th ed., Butterworth-Heinemann — material indices and the translate/screen/rank/document procedure.
• D. P. Raymer, Aircraft Design: A Conceptual Approach, 6th ed., AIAA — the Breguet range relation and installed-propulsion book-keeping used in Question 1.
• R. G. Cooper, Winning at New Products, 5th ed., Basic Books — stage-gate governance and the expected commercial value model in Question 7.
• Canadian instruments cited in the answers: Canadian Aviation Regulations (SOR/96-433) Part V and Airworthiness Manual Chapter 525; Motor Vehicle Safety Act (S.C. 1993, c. 16) and the Motor Vehicle Safety Regulations (CMVSS series); Patent Act (R.S.C. 1985, c. P-4) as administered by CIPO; CSA C22.1 Canadian Electrical Code, Part I.