Skagit Valley College

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 Course Title:   Practical Design Applications

 Title Abbreviation:   PRACTICAL DESIGN APPLICA

 Department:    MANF

 Course #:    435

 Credits:    7

 Variable:     No

 IUs:    9

 CIP:    15.0613

 EPC:    MATPDBAS

 REV:    2024


 Course Description  

Identify business aspects of industrial design and apply these principles to design projects. Focuses on entrepreneurialism. Begin to develop processes and infrastructure to progress into full production initiating the process of realizing a finalized design.

 Prerequisite  

Prerequisite: BASPD Director permission.

Additional Course Details

Contact Hours (based on 11 week quarter)

Lecture: 33

Lab: 88

Other: 0

Systems: 0

Clinical: 0


Intent: Distribution Requirement(s) Status:  

Vocational Preparatory N/A  

Equivalencies At Other Institutions

Other Institution Equivalencies Table
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Learning Outcomes

After completing this course, the student will be able to:

  1. Apply business principles to design requirements.
  2. Explore production infrastructure to satisfy design constraints.
  3. Plan capacity while mitigating production constraints.
  4. Develop a production model concept.

General Education Learning Values & Outcomes

Revised August 2008 and affects outlines for 2008 year 1 and later.

Course Contents

  1. Capacity/cost trade-offs.
  2. Quality/cost trade-offs.
  3. Deliver/quality trade-offs.
  4. Vendor capacity analysis.
  5. Alternative production models.