Selecting Production Processes with CES EduPack:

it helps if you know a bit more

Erik Tempelman
2nd International Symposium, University of Cambridge
Friday, March 26th 2010

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Content

• Introducing our university and school:

40 years of industrial design engineering excellence

• The CES Edupack and our curriculum:

where and how do we use it

• Production processes:
how we teach about them, and why we know our approach works

• Closing words:
towards a better structure for production processes?

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Delft University of Technology

• Established in 1842
• Over 15,000 students in 14 BSc and 41 MSc programs
• 2750+ academic staff, 200+ PhD’s per year
• Eight schools: AE, AS, A, CEG, EEMCS, IDE, 3ME, TPM

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School of Industrial Design Engineering

• Established in 1969
• Leading in education: 300+ BSc and 200+ MSc per year
• Leading in research: 50+ PhD students
• Broad industrial network with 4100+ alumni

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Strategievak Vormgevend vak Mens en product PO1

1st q.
Ander vak Product in Design and
Techniekvak
(in English) werking experience
2nd q.

Business, Cult.
PO2

1st year
3rd q.

en Techniek

Construeren Reserch and

4th q.

design

FFE
Product en Strategic product
1st q.

beweging innovation

PO1
PO2
PO3
PO4
BEP
Industriele
PO3

concept
productie
2nd q.

Technische Interaction and

2nd year

product opt. electronics

3rd q.

emb/detail

Modelleren PO4
4th q.
1st q.

Minor
The CES Edupack and our curriculum
2nd q.

(elective) (elective)
3rd year
3rd q.

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Bachelor eindproject
4th q.

= CES used here

one block = 7.5 EC = 210 hrs
Current IDE bachelor program

(to IDE master curriculum)

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Production processes: how we teach them

• 1st year course: structural design

lectures + design assignments with increasing complexity (mathematics,
statics, mechanics, materials, production processes, + integration)

• 2nd year course: industrial production

lectures + projects. Key: not ‘a little bit of everything’ but in-depth
coverage of a small number of processes (incl. joining + assembly)

• 2nd year design project: PO4

focus on embodiment design

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Production processes: why we know it works

• Typical first-year mistakes with CES:

- selecting ‘drilling’ as process for 3D plastic shapes

- extruding everything, including tool steels
- designing a solid 5 x 30 x 60 cm injection moulded part
- etc, etc.

• Typical second-year skills:

- selecting realistic processes for part production

- being able to explain why the choices are made
- knowing how and where to find additional information
- etc, etc.
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Why we know it works: research project

• What we did:
comparing the performance of PO4-student with and without prior
knowledge from ‘industrial production’

• How we did it:

student surveys, staff interviews, grade analysis. Two-year period, average
of 240 students/year

• What we found:
9% grade point difference (… plus many ways to improve the course!)

Full details: “Strengthening the link between theory and practice in

teaching design engineering: An empirical study on a new approach”,
Int. J. of Technology and Design Education (in print)

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Closing words: towards a new structure? 1/2

PRODUCTION metals casting

PRINCIPLE
concept

PRODUCTION sand LP die HP die investment …

METHOD casting casting casting casting casting
embodiment

PRODUCTION (that sand casting

EQUIPMENT machine overthere)
detail

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Closing words: towards a new structure? 2/2

trade-offs during
series size
every design phase!
material colour & graphics

geometry texture & expression

function

finish part price

production process
stability investment
quality costs

homogenity time-to-market

roughness tolerances environment safety

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Questions, anyone?

PS: make ‘tolerances’

size-dependent please!

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