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Course Name	Turkish	Prob. Çöz. Tek.Tas. & Proje. Yön.
	English	PROBLEM SOLVING TECHNIQUES, DESIGN AND PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Course Code	MET 435	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	8	-	1	1	-
Course Language		Turkish
Course Coordinator		Derya Dışpınar
Course Objectives		Problem Solving Techniques and Design course is an important engineering course for engineers in order to differentiate, understand and solve engineering problems. This course will emphasize on; 1. Understanding of engineering problems, 2. Finding engineering solutions to the problems and design product/process in light of the solutions, 3. Importance of innovative thinking and patents 4. Selection materials and proceeses, 5. Team work 6. Project proposal writing and managing projects according to the proposals 7. Project Management 8. Development of innovative thinking 9. Improvement of students’ written and oral communication
Course Description		The course will include the definition of engineering problems, classification of problems open ended and closed ended problems, engineering designs; conceptual design, embodiment design, detailed design, concurrent engineering, team work, human as a social entity in team works, project management, project proposal writing, an innovative problem solving technique: TRIZ (Theory of Inventive Problem Solving)
Course Outcomes		Students who pass the course will be able to: I) Differentiate open and closed ended problems II) To make a design with solutions via using problem solving techniques (TRIZ, Quality Tools and Techniques and, etc) III) How to express their inventive ideas in project proposal and preparing a project proposal IV) How to manage a project with a team V) How to read patents and papers and importance of innovative approach VI) To make a project report VII) To improve their communicating skills (written and oral) via presenting a project proposal and project
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Other		In the course To improve their literature research ability and reading, understanding and writing ability, a subject will be given and a written report (paper) will be asked from papers and patents found during their literature survey. A search on a project funding organizations and institutions in Turkey and EU and their priorities, project proposal dates, documentation needed and etc. will be asked. Students as teams will make a list from their research. One closed ended problem will be given and written report as a team will be asked explaining the scientific idea behind the solution. Several open ended problems will be given. Students as teams will choose one of the problems and close them and propose solutions with using problem solving techniques and make a project proposal and present their proposal orally. Then the teams will work on their solutions and make a project report showing their designs including their solutions. And a project plan is also asked to submit by using project management software. In term papers the same approach will be used. The same teams will be working on problems given at the end of the semester and a project proposal and a project report will be asked from each team. And a project plan is also asked to submit by using project management software. Each person in the teams are evaluated by their team members this evaluation results also affects their grades.
Textbook		Handouts on Problem Solving Techniques and Design
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