Credit: 1 PDH Webinar
Webinar: 60 minutes
Webinar Price: $30.00
User-Centered Design 29:57 minutes
Using the faucet as an example, study the bewildering number of ways that hot and cold water can be delivered into a sink, reflecting the challenges of designing everyday things. Along the way, consider the principles that go into a successful design: affordances, signifiers, mapping, constraints, and feedback.
The Internal Combustion Engine 30:37 minutes
Begin the first of four lectures on automotive engineering by exploring that marvel of mechanical sophistication: the internal combustion engine. Professor Ressler uses homebuilt models to demonstrate the ingenious design of the four-stroke power cycle and how it works in perfect synchrony with a host of other engine sub-systems.
By the end of this course the student will learn the principles that go into a successful design: affordances, signifiers, mapping, constraints and feedback, and explain the marvel of mechanical sophistication: the internal combustion engine.