Short course/CPD

Concept Development and Prototyping

 

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Course overview

 To introduce requirement capture & management and concept creation fundamentals, techniques and practices consistent with early stages of new product development processes.

 
Location
Course fee:

  • £1400 - Standard. 20% discount for Cranfield alumni, 10% discount for colleagues of alumni
  • £1340 - Professional/trade association discount
  • £1280 - Multiple bookings* 
*Minimum of five delegates.

Accommodation fee:

Accommodation is not included in the price.

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How to register

To request a place on this course, please complete the online Registration Form. 

 

If you have any queries please contact:

Academic Operations Unit.

Cranfield University
Cranfield
Bedfordshire
MK43 0AL, UK


T: +44 (0) 1234 754176
E: shortcourse@cranfield.ac.uk
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Course description

  • Benefits of ‘good’ requirements engineering
  • Requirements engineering process, types of requirements, how to write a ‘good’ requirement
  • Industrial practice in requirements engineering and management
  • Hands on practice with professional software
  • Roles of consumer research
  • Benchmarking and management in successful new product development
  • The impact of creativity and innovation methods on new product development
  • User Centric Design, hands on practice using a market leading software
  • Concept development manifested in a design proposition.

On successful completion of this module the delegate will be able to:

  1. Appreciate the importance of  ‘good’ practice in requirements engineering at the early stages of new product development
  2. Be able to consider and write requirements considering structured formats
  3. Appreciate industrial challenges in requirements management for a complex new product development
  4. Appreciate the role of consumer research, ideation practices, benchmarking and management in successful new product development
  5. Awareness of how creativity and innovation impact new product development
  6. Awareness of industry best practice in requirements management and decision making (e.g. SixSigma, QFD)
  7. Appreciate benefits of ‘good’ requirements capture and management
  8. Identify different types of requirements
  9. Write requirements in a structured manner, considering industry ‘best’ practice
  10. Appreciate issues related to industrial practice and use of commercial software for Requirements capture and Management
  11. Link requirements to idea and concept development practices
  12. Appreciate the role of users in the design process
  13. Appreciate the significance of creative design in the early stages of NPD processes
  14. Concept development and design proposition development.

 
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This short course is also a module associated with a Decision Engineering Centre Masters-level programme (subject to Faculty Board approval). For further information please browse the module descriptors within the programme microsites. 

 
 
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