Workshop on Design Thinking: A Tool for New Product Development

On 12 & 13th April, 2022 a “Workshop on “Design Thinking: A Tool for New Product Development” was organized by Entrepreneurship Development Cell & Institution’s Innovation Council in association with the Department of Mechanical Engineering from 11:00 to 4.00 pm on both days. Mr. S.Kathiresan, Senior Mechanical Designer & Mr.M.Lakshmanan, Junior Mechanical Designer, CADD Centre, Tirunelveli were the resource person. The program was held via offline mode. Dr. R.K.A.Bhalaji, AP/MECH coordinated the programme.

The resource person explained the design thinking concept in detail. On the first day the resource persons explained the process of design thinking simply by citing number of live examples for each of the stages namely empathize, define, ideate, prototype and test. The participants raised lot of questions while explaining the design thinking concept. Additionally, they explained about how to design the new innovative product in a recent trend using CATIA, CREO & Solid Works software’s. On the second day the resource persons explained the process of new product development using the design thinking concept. They have highlighted the steps to develop the new innovative product with real time examples.