Seminar on Product Design - An Inevitable Process of Creating Consumer Centric Products

On 25.05.2022 a session was arranged by the Entrepreneurship Development Cell of ECE department and IIC through offline mode on the topic “Product Design - An Inevitable Process of Creating Consumer Centric Products". The session was handled by Dr.K.Lakshmi Narayanan, In-charge of Embedded and IOT Incubation Centre, Associate Professor, Department of ECE, Francis Xavier Engineering College from 1.30 PM – 02.40 PM. The Seminar was presided by Mrs J Friska HOD/ECE and jointly coordinated by EDC Director and IIC president Dr. Lourdes Poobala Rayen. ECE Students and ECE faculty members participated in the event. The program was coordinated by Dr. R Prem Ananth, IIC Convener, IIC Innovation Ambassador for "Design thinking & Innovations", Assistant professor, Francis Xavier Engineering College.

The resource person explained the process of designing a product and the things to be considered while designing a product. During his speech he explained the seven stages of new prototype development to develop Consumer centric products. He elaborated various stages. Stage 1: Idea Generation; Stage 2: Idea Screening; Stage 3: Concept Development & Testing; Stage 4: Market Strategy/Business Analysis; Stage 5: Product Development; Stage 6: Deployment and Stage 7: Market Entry/Commercialization. He also explained the benefits of following the process of product development seriously to develop a marketable product which can serve the target consumers. 44 students and 4 faculty members actively participated in the session.

The interaction between the students and the resource person was highly motivating to all the students. Session came to an end with the feedback of Students.