Design Engineering and Design Management (MoMaC) M2

The Design Engineering and Design Management (MoMaC) specialization prepares 2nd-year Master’s students for industrial R&D careers, academic research, and careers consulting in the areas of design engineering and design management. The main objective is to acquire the capacity to conceive and improve the performance of design processes, making them more efficient, within product and services companies.

Pedagogy

One of the distinctive features of this specialization is that it distinguishes between two different perspectives on the design process, as represented by two specialization curricula:

• The Products, Services, Engineering Curriculum (PSI) focuses on industrial products: Product, Project (for new product development), Process, Organization from an Engineering and Modeling Perspective. Students learn to model, represent, computer manage, simulate, and plan the implementation of an industrial solution, to delineate design processes, capitalize their know-how and implement design methodologies within companies.
• The Organization, Projects & Knowledge Curriculum (OPC) seeks to optimize the design process through the use of knowledge, skills, and new organizational and management techniques. The aim is to improve the performance of organizations, projects, and innovative organizations, as well as processes and structures through the management of knowledge.

This is approached through industrial contexts in which highly complex products (automobiles, planes, satellites, factories, televisions, computers) and consumer products of intermediate-complexity (cell phones, domestic appliances, cameras, etc.) are designed and produced, calling for the rationalization, if not optimization, of product, industrial process, and project parameters.

Programme

Students are trained and evaluated on their capacity to analyze and intervene on innovative design issues within goods and services companies, i.e.:

• System engineering and deployment of product parameters; concurrent engineering; collaborative design; coupled product-process modeling; virtual or CAD project drafting; product configuration; product platforms
• Objective and subjective need assessment
• Performance models identification; design space and optimal solution space representation; product optimization and multi-criteria comparison/assessment
• Product assessment throughout the design project and performance, cost, and risk supervision; modeling and simulation of material and immaterial processes
• Company knowledge management, project memories, experience feedback
• Sustainable development and eco-design; design for all (the elderly, etc.)
• Innovation management – innovative organizations management; communities of practice within the design/industrialization field
• Management of projects, manpower, objectives, resources, project portfolios
• Robust design; reliable design; operating safety

Courses

Students take basic courses and courses from one of the two curricula. Students can also choose to combine courses from the two curricula.

Basic Modules:

• Management and Innovation Processes
• Risk Analyses
• Multi-criteria Decision-making Aids
• English
• Research Training & Thematic
• Dissertation

Organization, Projects & Knowledge (OPC) Curriculum Courses

• Strategy and the Future of Management
• Sustainable and Systemic Value Creation
• Advanced Project Management
• Immaterial Economics and KM
• Innovative Organization Management

Products, Services, Engineerings (PSI) Curriculum Courses

• Innovation Market Design
• From Market to Product Supply
• Complex Systems Design and System
• Engineering
• PLM (Product Lifecycle Management)
• Design Methodology – Eco-design