PROD602-22S1 (C) Semester One 2022

Systems Thinking for Product Design

15 points

Details:
Start Date: Monday, 21 February 2022
End Date: Sunday, 26 June 2022
Withdrawal Dates
Last Day to withdraw from this course:
  • Without financial penalty (full fee refund): Sunday, 6 March 2022
  • Without academic penalty (including no fee refund): Sunday, 15 May 2022

Description

Applied systems thinking for product and service design. Construction and analysis of linear and non-linear models of interconnected systems relevant to product design such as growth/decay, population dynamics, social media behaviours, urban dynamics, sensor-response feedback loops, supply and demand, pollution modelling, consumer and end-user behaviours.

Learning Outcomes

Learning outcomes
1. An understanding of how products give rise to and depend critically upon complex supply chain
       systems
2. Develop and analyse dynamics of integrated systems in a range of application settings.
3. Identify and explore relative importance of direct and indirect variables on overall system
       dynamics.
4. Translate conceptual system designs into representative qualitative and quantitative dynamic
       models.
5. Use systems thinking to analyse and refine innovative product or service designs through
       introduction or control of user-accessible features.
6. Understand and communicate the effects of quantitative and qualitative responses to user
       interactions with a product or service.

Prerequisites

Approval of the Head of the School of Product Design

Course Coordinator

Conan Fee

Course Administrator

Alison Lowery

Lecturer

Diane Mollenkopf

Assessment

Report on Learnings from Supply Chain Dynamics    Thursday 18th March, 5 pm        15%

Report on the Dynamic Behaviour of an Existing Model  Thursday 1st April, 5 pm        15%

Implications of Your Product Design for the Supply Chain  Thursday May 6th, 5 pm     15%

Managing Growth of a Business Start-Up  Thursday May 20th, 5 pm      15%

Apply Systems Thinking to An Original Product or Service Design   Thursday June 3rd, 5 pm    40%

Indicative Fees

Domestic fee $1,133.00

* All fees are inclusive of NZ GST or any equivalent overseas tax, and do not include any programme level discount or additional course-related expenses.

For further information see School of Product Design .

All PROD602 Occurrences

  • PROD602-22S1 (C) Semester One 2022