Systems Thinking for Design

Session 1

Dr. Karthik Chandrasekaran

School of Interdisciplinary Design and Innovation
(SIDI)
Recap
1. What courses did you learn last semester?
2. What were the relevant courses to this course?
3. What were the key learning from those courses?

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Let us start – Exercise 1.1

Take the test at this website - https://upgrader.gapminder.org/

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Introductory Session

Understanding IIITDM

DS2000: Learning Objectives & Course Structure

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Exercise 1.2: What do these terms mean to you?
(10 min)

1. Science (Natural / Social) Make-in-India 9. Product

2. Engineering 10. Industrial Design
3. Technology Startup India 11. Engineering Design
4. Innovation Skill India 12. Prototype
5. Entrepreneurship 13. Manufacturing
6. Management
IIITDM 14. User
7. Enterprise/Business/Company 15. Customer
8. Industry 16. Market
Constraint: Should not exceed a page & should include all terms
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1. Scientist-engineer 2. Design-centric Engineer 3. Product/Industrial designer

Science/Physics Service/valu
driven e

Science &
Product Societ
Technology
y

Evaluation/Needs Context driven

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IIITDM: Conceptualized in 2003 and setup in 2007 to
develop a new engineer for the manufacturing sector

IT
intensive
(SMART)
Engineering Technology
Nature (Applied (Tools /
Product & Product / Enterprise / Market /
Society
Process for Service Business Industry
Sciences) Components)
the
Manufactu
ring sector

IISc & IISER NITs / IITs IIITDM NID IIMs CDS/IGIDR/TISS

Basic Engineering Engineering Design Thinking Entrepreneurship Humanities &
Sciences Sciences Analysis & Design & Technical Arts & Management social sciences
STEM Design + Entrepreneurship
Image courtesy: Prof. Sudhir Varadarajan, SIDI 7
Intent of the Inter-disciplinary Design and
Entrepreneurship Oriented Engineering
Novel & Relevant Viable & Sustainable

Product Business
Innovation

Technology

Practical & Economical

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National Priority: Make-in-India & Manufacturing
• Phase-1 of Make-in-India happened with the Indian IT industry, 1995-2005 and
laid the foundation for a digital
ecosystem

• Phase-2 is the focus on increasing the manufacturing sector contribution to

25% of the GDP leveraging the digital ecosystem
• Leveraging Industry 4.0 (Smart and Advanced Manufacturing)
• CII-SR Initiative: Manufacturing and Digital Excellence (MADE)
• Digital disruption at the shop floor & in capital goods
• Importance of Design
• IIOT and integration
• Startup India (Entrepreneurship & Job creation in the SME sector)
• Skill India

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Exercise 1.3 (10 min): What competencies did
you develop in Year-1 & how?
Relook at your first year courses and depict using
the skills you have acquired in the first year
My assumption: all of you remember the courses
Category Course Name Category Course Name

BSC Calculus
BSC Differential Equations
BSC Engineering Electromagnetics
SEC Science Elective 1
BEC Electrical Circuits for Engineers
BEC Engineering Graphics

BEC Problem Solving and Programming ITC Data Structures and Algorithms

BEC Materials for Engineers DSC Sociology of Design

DSC Foundation for Engineering and Product Design ITC Design and Manufacturing Lab

PCC Discrete Structures for Computer Science

BSC Engineering Electromagnetics Practice
ITC Data Structures and Algorithms Practice
BEC Problem Solving and Programming Practice
HSC NSO/NCC/SSG/NSS
HSC Effective Language and Communication Skills
HSC Earth, Environment and Design

The answer that is most common will receive lowest marks

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The ever rising gap between engineering students’
competence & industry
expectations

IIITDM curriculum to Industry

Student Competence
bridge the gap Expectations
Design Thinking &
Management
• Knowledge Courses to develop • Productivity from day-1
• Skills/Know-how Key Attributes • Contribute to innovation
• Attributes/Behaviors • Help build a new culture

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Global state of the art in Engineering Education
What is happening to engineering education sector across the world? And will USA be the
dominant player?

Study by MIT School of Engineering concludes the following

1. Shift of engineering education leadership from West to emerging Asian ‘economic

2. powerhouses’ and South America
3. Move towards socially-relevant and outward-facing engineering curricula
4. Emergence of a new generation of leaders in engineering education that delivers integrated
5. Student-centered curricula at scale.

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 Global state of the art in Engineering Education

Learning how Interpersonal

Making Discovering
skills
to learn

Personal skills Critical and

Creativity Systems
and attitudes metacognitive
thinking
thinking

Analytical Computational
Experimental Humanistic
thinking thinking

To develop these qualities engineering institutions must approach the overall training very differently, with
emphasis on cross disciplinary, integrative, and problem based learning

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What is competence / outcome of learning?

Knowledge

Attributes
/ Skill
Behaviours s

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Product design & entrepreneurship are at a different
level compared to engineering & science
Industry Level Value Creation
Institutional Core
Courses
(Design & Mgmt): Holistic, Creative &
Product Level Inter-disciplinary
17% credits
Thinking
Engineering (Detail
Design,
Sub-system Manufacturing &
Leve IT)
l incl.Courses
Internship and Analytical Thinking
Final Year Project
Science & Math
Part Level Courses

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 Overall design spine course structure

Year-1 Courses Year-3 Courses Year-4

• Explore FORM • Define • Design • Field-Test (Internship)
FUNCTION
• Functional STRUCTURE
• Realize PROTOTYPE • Final Year Project
Architecture for • Create a BIZ PLAN

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 Courses to promote design thinking, product
innovation and incubation
Key Learning
Design Thinking Ent & Mgmt Outcomes
Incubation
8 Innovation Management Sustain
Advantage
Data Analytics
7 (Customer, Process)
Go-to-Market

Design for Quality Product Design Product

6 Product Management Prototype
and Reliability Practice Innovation
Semesters

Entrepreneurship & Sustainable

5 Sustainable Design Management Functions Business
Plan
Designing Intelligent Socially sensitive & Design
4 Sociology of Info-intensive Design
Systems Thinking
Design
Systems Thinking Discovering a Holistic
3 for Design Engineering Economics Product Concept -
NPD
Industrial Design Design Professional Foundation
2 Design History Sketching Realization Ethics courses

1 Concepts of Engg Design Earth, Env & Design English for Communication Orientation

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Introductory Session

Understanding IIITDM

DS2000: Learning Objectives & Course Structure

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Learning Objectives and Outcomes
• The objective of this course is to introduce engineering students to a systemic
(holistic and integrative) approach to product design in particular and problem
solving in general
• The focus will be on the issues in
the fuzzy front-end of new product
development that comes much before
the detail engineering design phase

• At the end of the course, you will be able to:

• Know how to identify right problems in a domain (opportunity / need identification)
• Apply frameworks & methods to model function, behavior, structure of a system(s)
• Model the requirements and a high level product architecture

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Session and Assessment Plan
Aug Aug Sep Oct Nov

Module 1 Module 2 Module 3 Module 4

End Semester
(Sessions 1-2) (Sessions 3-5) (Sessions 6-9) (Session 10-15)

Introduction to DM
Curriculum (1)
Systems Concepts (2) SNAC Analysis (1) FBS, ISM, NK (3) Understand-15%

Why Sys Think for Problem research Network & Feedback System Definition
Design (0.5) (0.5) Analysis (1) (SysML) (2) Apply-15%

Find issues of interest Pretotype Demo &

& collaborators (0.5)
Discovery matrix (0.5) Mid point Review (2)
Peer Review (1) Analyze-10%

Assignment Set-1 Assignment Set-2 Assignment Set-3 Assignment Set-4 End Semester
(5%) - START (10%) - DISCOVER (15%) - DIAGNOSE (20%) - DESIGN (40%)

Course Engagement (10%)

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Key References
New Product Design & Engineering Design
1. Chitale, A.K. and Gupta, R.C. (2011), Product design and manufacturing, PHI Learning Private
Limited, New Delhi (library)
2. Ulrich Karl, Eppinger Steven and Goyal Anita (2009), Product design and development, Tata
McGraw Hill (library)
3. Pahl, G., Beitz, W, Feldhusen, J., Grote, K.H. (2007); Engineering Design: A systematic approach, Third
Edition, Springer (library)
Systems thinking & Systems engineering
1. Andrew P. Sage and James E. Armstrong Jr. (2000), Introduction to Systems Engineering, Wiley (library)
2. Alexander Kossiakoff & William N Street (2003), Systems Engineering: Principles and Practice, Wiley Student
Edition (library)
3. Hitchins, Derek (2003), Advanced systems thinking, engineering and management, Artech House
(library)

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Rules of Engagement
• Prepare and come to the class for discussion
• Videos, course (presentation and reading material) will be shared with you
• Have A4 sheets (4-5) for classroom work

• Work on topics of interest

• You research and study outside the class (individually or in groups)

• Document individual and group contributions

• Course engagement includes individual and group participation

• Attendance (2 hr session), classroom discussion, FAQs, Timely
submission

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Self-reflection: Why am I doing What I am
doing?

There is a lot of information in the ordinary everyday

activities. Self-reflection can help you notice that

It is a practice that can differentiate between 20 years of experience

and 1 year experience repeated 20 times

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Exercise 1.4: Take the first step in self-reflection
(20
min)
• Write a note reflecting on

• Who you are? Where are you coming from (roots/ideology)?

• What inspires or frustrates you?

• Why engineering?

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 World income levels

Infographic from “www.gapminder.org”

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Assignment
1. Watch the following video on by Hans Rosling - “The best stats you've ever seen”
https://youtu.be/hVimVzgtD6w
2. Follow and subscribe to the following youtube channels
I. Tim Hunkin – Engineer and Designer - https://www.youtube.com/user/timhunkin1
II. Economics Explained - https://www.youtube.com/user/JitaLounge

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