完成本课程，学员应该能够：

• 为系统性能或质量特性设立衡量指标。通过稳健设计使得这些衡量指标对影响系统的噪声不敏感。
• 综合理解稳健设计的各种概念方法并清楚如何选用。
• 辨别引起系统质量特性波动的噪声因子。
• （通过试验和解析的方法）估计给定设计的稳健程度（对噪声因子的敏感程度）。
• 制定并实施一整套稳健设计方案来降低噪声因子的影响（参数设计，主动控制，调整）。
• 为设计选择合理的公差。
• 明晰稳健设计的各种技巧在整个产品开发过程中的作用。
• 领导包含稳健设计技巧的产品开发活动。

本课程的安排适合于新SDM的分段式夏季学期。学期前五个周，学员在学校上课；最后五周回到各自的公司。因此，为了让学员能够平衡夏季学期的工作量，前五个周的进度将加快。

本课程包括一个课程实践：通过团队合作完成一个实际的设计项目。目标是在SDM的赞助公司和麻省理工学院内确定一个与企业有关的设计项目。团队需要提交书面报告来纪录项目过程，并演示项目结果。

After taking this course, a student should be able to:

• Formulate measures of performance of a system or quality characteristics. These quality characteristics are to be made robust to noise affecting the system.
• Sythesize and select design concepts for robustness.
• Identify noise factors whose variation may affect the quality characteristics.
• Estimate the robustness of any given design (experimentally and analytically).
• Formulate and implement methods to reduce the effects of noise (parameter design, active control, adjustment).
• Select rational tolerances for a design.
• Explain the role of robust design techniques within the wider context of the product development process.
• Lead product development activities that include robust design techniques.

This course will be designed to accommodate the new SDM split summer format. The students will be on campus for the first 5 weeks and back at their companies for the last five weeks. The first five weeks will therefore be accelerated to help students balance the workload more evenly over the summer.

The course will require a substantial, team-based design project. The goal will be to define industrially relevant design projects in the SDM sponsor companies and at MIT. Teams will document their efforts in a written report and make a formal presentation of their results.