Mirko Meboldt: Catalogue data in Autumn Semester 2022

Award: The Golden Owl
Name Prof. Dr. Mirko Meboldt
FieldProduct Development and Engineering Design
Address
Chair of Product Dev.& Eng. Design
ETH Zürich, LEE O 210
Leonhardstrasse 21
8092 Zürich
SWITZERLAND
Telephone+41 44 632 72 38
E-mailmeboldtm@ethz.ch
DepartmentMechanical and Process Engineering
RelationshipFull Professor

NumberTitleECTSHoursLecturers
151-0047-00LEngineering Tool: Agile Product Development Restricted registration - show details
All Engineering Tools courses are for MAVT Bachelor’s degree students only.

Number of participants limited to 12.
0.4 credits1KM. Meboldt
AbstractAgile product development is gaining high interest in many industries. Still, only few hardware developing firms have adopted Agile approaches into their daily development work due to inadequate trainings. Within this course, students will be introduced to the culture and mindset behind Agile by solving a practical development task in a team of 4 students.
ObjectiveStudents shall experience and internalize the key principles and practices of Agile product development.
ContentIntroduction to Agile (principles & methods), team-based development task.
Lecture notesA digital script will be distributed.
151-0077-10LbyPulse Restricted registration - show details
This course is part of a one-year course. The 14 credit points will be issued at the end of FS2023 with new enrolling for the same Focus-Project in FS2023.

For MAVT BSc and ITET BSc only.

Prerequisites for the focus projects:
a. Basis examination successfully passed
b. Block 1 and 2 successfully passed

For enrollment, please contact the D-MAVT Student Administration.
0 credits15AM. Meboldt
AbstractStudents develop and build a product from A-Z! They work in teams and independently, learn to structure problems, to identify solutions, system analysis and simulations, as well as presentation and documentation techniques. They build the product with access to a machine shop and state of the art engineering tools (Matlab, Simulink, etc).
ObjectiveThe various objectives of the Focus Project are:
- Synthesizing and deepening the theoretical knowledge from the basic courses of the 1. - 4. semester
- Team organization, work in teams, increase of interpersonal skills
- Independence, initiative, independent learning of new topic contents
- Problem structuring, solution identification in indistinct problem definitions, searches of information
- System description and simulation
- Presentation methods, writing of a document
- Ability to make decisions, implementation skills
- Workshop and industrial contacts
- Learning and recess of special knowledge
- Control of most modern engineering tools (Matlab, Simulink, CAD, CAE, PDM)
151-0761-00LPractice Course Product Development Restricted registration - show details
Only students for focus projects. 2 up to 3 students per focus project.
1 credit1GM. Meboldt, C. R. Dietzsch, C. Schorno, M. Schütz
AbstractThis course provides comprehensive input to ongoing focus project teams in the areas of project management, communication and presentation, as well as dealing with the media, coaches and patents and safety issues.
ObjectiveParticipants will receive tips, hints and background information from experienced tutors appliccable to current projects.
ContentProject Management
- Creating a solid project base
- Project planning and controlling
- Product validation and testing
- Problem solving cycle and decicion taking transparent for others

Communication
- Communication within the team and with coaches
- Public Relations in a Nutshell
- How to aquire and manage suppliers and sponsors
- Transfer of technical drawings to suppliers
- Technical repots
- Review presentations

Handling of and guidance to
- Expectation management and dealing with conflicts
- Burnout prevention, time management, work disturbances
- Safety issues
- Issues regardring patents
Lecture notesLecture notes and documentation will be electronically available.
Prerequisites / Notice- for students only participating in a Focus Project in the same semester
- the exact schedule will be communicated during the course
- it is expected, that every team is visiting each leacture with typically at least 2 team members
151-3215-00LDesign for Additive Manufacturing Restricted registration - show details
Please write a short motivation letter to apply for the course. The motivation letter should include why you intend to visit the course. Additionally, please mention what experience you have with relevant topics, such as CAD, project work, additive manufacturing (AM), simulation or design of experiments. Please also mention in the letter, if you already have a proposal for an AM component to be designed as part of the project or if you have a real-world challenge you could address by AM. Please send the letter to Julian Ferchow (email: Link).
4 credits2GM. Meboldt, J. Ferchow
AbstractThis course focuses on the design, fabrication, and testing of components produced by additive manufacturing (AM) technologies.
The course includes a project based on a real-world problem in which students design, fabricate and iteratively optimize functional AM parts using an appropriate AM technology.
ObjectiveIn this course fundamental knowledge of Design for Additive Manufacturing (AM). The course will prepare the students to:

- Apply fundamental AM processes (metal and plastics)
- Apply the AM design guidelines
- Adopt AM in an industrial environment
- Apply design tools and methods in AM
- Create an added value of AM
- Work in a project-based product development team
ContentParallel to the lectures the students design, manufacture and test prototypes in a project in different product development stages.
The course is addressing the following topics:

- State of the art AM Processes for metal and plastics (LPBF, BJ, MJF, SLS, FDM)
- Design guidelines in AM
- Industrial adoption of AM
- Value creation and business models for AM
- Design tools and methods for AM
- Quality management in AM
- Industry cases of AM applications
- Problem solving and creativity
- Agile Development
Lecture notesScript and handouts are available in PDF-format.
LiteratureChristoph Klahn; Mirko Meboldt: Entwicklung und Konstruktion für die Additive Fertigung - Grundlagen und Methoden für den Einsatz in industriellen Endkundenprodukten
Vogel Business Media, Würzburg
ISBN: 978-3-8343-3395-7

Ian Gibson; David Rosen; Brent Stucker: Additive manufacturing technologies - 3D printing, rapid prototyping, and direct digital manufacturing
Springer, New York
ISBN: 978-1-4939-2112-6
Prerequisites / NoticeThis course is for master's students.

Please write a short motivation letter to apply for the course. The motivation letter should include why you intend to visit the course. Additionally, please mention what experience you have with relevant topics, such as CAD, project work, additive manufacturing (AM), simulation or design of experiments. Please also mention in the letter, if you already have a proposal for an AM component to be designed as part of the project or if you have a real-world challenge you could address by AM. Please send the letter to Julian Ferchow (email: ferchowj@ethz.ch).
The successful completion of the course requires active participation in the project, the lecture and the oral exam.

Final grades are based on the performance in the projects, the oral examination and the performance and the participation in the lecture.
227-0981-00LCross-Disciplinary Research and Development in Medicine and Engineering Restricted registration - show details
A maximum of 12 medical degree students and 12 (biomedical) engineering degree students can be admitted, their number should be equal.
4 credits2V + 2AV. Kurtcuoglu, D. de Julien de Zelicourt, M. Meboldt, M. Schmid Daners, O. Ullrich
AbstractCross-disciplinary collaboration between engineers and medical doctors is indispensable for innovation in health care. This course will bring together engineering students from ETH Zurich and medical students from the University of Zurich to experience the rewards and challenges of such interdisciplinary work in a project based learning environment.
ObjectiveThe main goal of this course is to demonstrate the differences in communication between the fields of medicine and engineering. Since such differences become the most evident during actual collaborative work, the course is based on a current project in physiology research that combines medicine and engineering. For the engineering students, the specific aims of the course are to:

- Acquire a working understanding of the anatomy and physiology of the investigated system;
- Identify the engineering challenges in the project and communicate them to the medical students;
- Develop and implement, together with the medical students, solution strategies for the identified challenges;
- Present the found solutions to a cross-disciplinary audience.
ContentAfter a general introduction to interdisciplinary communication and detailed background on the collaborative project, the engineering students will team up with medical students to find solutions to a biomedical challenge. In the process, they will be supervised both by lecturers from ETH Zurich and the University of Zurich, receiving coaching customized to the project. The course will end with each team presenting their solution to a cross-disciplinary audience.
Lecture notesHandouts and relevant literature will be provided.
Prerequisites / NoticeIMPORTANT: Note that a special permission from the lecturers is required to register for this course. Contact the head lecturer to that end.
CompetenciesCompetencies
Method-specific CompetenciesAnalytical Competenciesassessed
Problem-solvingassessed
Project Managementassessed
Social CompetenciesCommunicationassessed
Cooperation and Teamworkassessed
Customer Orientationassessed