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Academic Catalog 2022/2023

Sustainable Product Design and Innovation

Bachelor of Science

The Sustainable Product Design and Innovation major at Keene State College is a pre-professional four-year program offering a cross-disciplinary curriculum to give the student a solid foundation in the artistic, scientific, and technical aspects of product design and the social and scientific aspects of sustainability concerns. Product Design involves the synthesis of consumer needs and production capabilities in the creation of new products and their affiliated services. The integrated sustainability issues link the multitude of human factors, environmental, and resource depletion concerns to the decision-making process. The curriculum draws from five disciplines: art, management, mathematics, safety, and industrial/product design to build the student's capacity in design theory and practice, material sciences, production processes, digital technology, and the quantitative and qualitative issues of sustainability and business practices. All SPDI Majors complete the SPDI major requirements totaling 66 credits. By choosing additional courses noted below, students may elect to further focus their studies by adding an option in General Engineering or in Manufacturing Engineering. These options are not required to complete the SPDI major. The Sustainable Product Design and Innovation major is designed to provide students with a hands-on project-based learning curriculum focusing on real-world applications grounded in a liberal arts foundation. The emphasis on innovation complemented with business management encourages creative problem-solving and entrepreneurship, providing students with the tools to adapt and evolve their career paths to meet the needs of a rapidly changing world. Integrated sustainability values prepare students for engagement in the product realization arena in the "lean" and "green" global production economy. Graduates are prepared to pursue graduate study or transition directly into careers in product design/engineering, technology/evaluation, planning, supply, production, quality control, technical services, marketing, sales, or other related professions.

Integrative Studies Requirements

40 credits minimum

Major Requirements

66 credits

SPDI Core Courses

26 credits

SPDI 110 Electricity and Electronics Fundamentals
IISPDI 151 Product Design Principles
SPDI 180 Metal Processes and Prototyping
SPDI 221 Three-Dimensional CAD
SPDI 302 Properties of Materials (2 credits)
SPDI 304 Materials: A Life-Cycle View
SPDI 351 Product Design II

Management Core Courses

16 credits

MGT 101 Introduction to Management
MGT 140 Quantitative Decision-Making
MGT 215 Accounting for Sustainable Business

Choose one of the following courses:

  • MGT 331 Principles of Marketing
  • SPDI 446/MGT 446 Competitive Manufacturing Management

SPDI/Management/Physics Electives

Select 4 credits from the following courses

  • MGT 451 Business and Society
  • INPHYS 131 Engineering Fundamentals
  • SPDI 121 Design Visualization in Product Design and Engineering
  • SPDI 170 Introduction to Woodworking Technology
  • INSPDI 183 Ultra-Precision Manufacturing
  • SPDI 290 Special Topics
  • SPDI 298 Independent Study
  • SPDI 321 Advanced 3D CAD
  • SPDI 330 Metrology and CMM (2 credits)
  • SPDI 380 CAD/CAM Using MasterCAM
  • INSPDI 385 Bio-Fabrication
  • SPDI 410 Mechatronics and Automation
  • SPDI 450 Product Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
  • SPDI 456 Portfolio Design (2 credits)
  • SPDI 490 Advanced Special Topics
  • SPDI 495 Seminar
  • SPDI 498 Independent Study

Required Allied Discipline Courses

12 credits

IAART 103 Three-Dimensional Design
SAFE 215 Human Factors in Safety

Select at least one of the following MATH courses:

  • MATH 120 Applied Algebra and Trigonometry
  • MATH 130 Precalculus
  • MATH 151 Calculus I

SPDI Capstone Courses

8 credits

SPDI 352 Product Design III
SPDI 400 Manufacturing Enterprise

Internships and/or Cooperative Education Experiences are recommended:

  • SPDI 294 Cooperative Education (counts toward elective credit)
  • SPDI 494 Advanced Cooperative Education (counts toward elective credit)

Options

While not required for the SPDI major, each student may choose one of the following options. These options are General Engineering and Manufacturing Engineering. Courses for the option that also fulfill requirements for the SPDI major are not counted twice for overall college credit. Please note that some courses within the options may require prerequisite courses.

Manufacturing Engineering Option

40-52 credits

This option prepares students for career growth and flexibility in many aspects of 21st century manufacturing. Students electing the Manufacturing Engineering option will build on their SPDI major’s knowledge and skills in design thinking, product design and development processes, materials and manufacturing methods, business management, and sustainability, with additional cross-disciplinary courses in Mathematics, Physics, Chemistry, Computer Science, and Statistics. Students also have the opportunity to gain further knowledge and skills that create key competitive advantages in today’s advanced manufacturing companies including LEAN manufacturing, advanced CAD, CAM, CNC programming, metrology, design for manufacturing and assembly, and mechatronics and automation. To fulfill the Manufacturing Engineering option students must take the following courses while fulfilling the requirements for the SPDI major. Failure to do so may impact time to graduation:

Core Requirements

INPHYS 131 Engineering Fundamentals
SPDI 446/MGT 446 Competitive Manufacturing Management

Select at least one of the following MATH courses:

  • MATH 130 Precalculus
  • MATH 151 Calculus I

In addition to the SPDI major, choose the following SPDI courses:

20 credits

SPDI 321 Advanced 3D CAD
SPDI 330 Metrology and CMM (2 credits)
SPDI 380 CAD/CAM/CNC Using MasterCAM
SPDI 410 Mechatronics and Automation
SPDI 450 Product Design for Manufacturing and Assembly
SPDI 456 Portfolio Design (2 credits)

In addition to the SPDI major, take the following Allied Discipline Courses:

20 credits

INPHYS 141 College Physics I or INPHYS 241 University Physics I
PHYS 142 College Physics II or PHYS 242 University Physics II
ISCS 140 Programming Foundations I
INSAFE 213 Safety Chemistry

Select at least one of the following courses:

  • MATH 242 Applied Statistics
  • IIPHYS 342 Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers
  • ISMGT 383 Applied Data Analysis & Vis.

General Engineering

36-48 credits

This option can help prepare the student for career growth and flexibility related to new product design and development, engineering and manufacturing and for further academic study upon graduation in Engineering and Physics. Students electing the General Engineering Option will build on their SPDI major’s knowledge and skills in design thinking, product design and development processes, materials and manufacturing methods, business management, and sustainability, with a strong cross-disciplinary foundation in Math and Physics and in other engineering related disciplines of chemistry, data analytics, and areas of interest. To fulfill this option students must take the following courses while fulfilling the requirements for the SPDI major. Failure to do so may impact time to graduation:

Core Requirements

MATH 151 Calculus I
INPHYS 131 Engineering Fundamentals

In addition to the SPDI major, choose the following Allied Discipline Courses:

36 credits

Mathematics

MATH 152 Calculus II
MATH 231 Linear Algebra

Physics

INPHYS 241 University Physics I
PHYS 242 University Physics II

Allied Disciplines

Choose one:

  • ISCS 210 Python Programming
  • IIPHYS 342 Data Analysis for Scientists and Engineers
  • ISMGT 383 Applied Data Analysis

Chemistry:

  • INCHEM 111 General Chemistry
  • CHEM 112 General Chemistry II

General Engineering Electives

Choose two:

  • PHYS 339 Classical Mechanics
  • CHEM 342 Physical Chemistry
  • SPDI 410 Mechatronics and Automation
  • ARCH 375 Statics/Structural Analysis
  • INOPTC 110 Laser Optics (2 credits) AND INOPTC 120 Thin Film in Optics (2 credits) or INOPTC 101 Introduction to Optics
  • MATH 251 Vector Calculus
  • MATH 361 Differential Equations

Electives

Select additional courses of your choice to bring total number of credits earned to 120. Students are encouraged to complete a minor or an organized cluster of courses related to their career interests.

Degree Requirements

120 credits
40 credits at the upper-level