This course is offered at the University of Trento by the security group in the framework of the three main Master offered by Trento (Security and Privacy, Internet Technology and Architecture, Service Design and Engineering) within the European Institute of Innovation and Technology (ICT Labs).

See the UNITN S&P EIT page for further information on the Security and Privacy courses.

We often see nice proof-of-concept research demonstration of useful tools in magazines or on web-sites. What does it take to make this a product? For example, suppose we are building a tool that provides a better interface to a hardware device. On our blog we can say “A brief search on the internet shows us the right data-sheet for the product”. This is not feasible in a product and must be replaced by a web service, that deliver the right results to our own customer.

This course should allow students to experience what it takes to transform an idea into a product.

Illustrate (some) steps of product design and developement and guide students, forming multi-disciplinary teams, into the development of a “product” as opposed to just a “project”.

This course is normally 6ECTS credits for MSc students enrolled in Trento or for EIT/ICTLabs students joining Trento as exit students. For EIT/ICTLabs master students having Trento as entry students this course will yield 9 credits as it includes the credits for the EIT/ICTLabs summer school.

• Learning: Lectures on Product Design and Development (PD&D)
  • Introduction
  • Product Specifications
  • Concept (Mostly selection and testing)
  • Product Architecture
  • Prototyping and robust design
  • Patents and Intellectual Property
• Thinking: Concept's Idea Canvas (up to 10/30 grade points)
  • Each team will produce a concept's idea canvas to clarify the key strong points on their product
• Designing: Product design and architecture (up to 10/30 grade points)
  • Teams will produce a poster explaining how their product will work
• Producing: Product prototype (up to 15/30 grade points)
  • Each team will have a small budget for hardware/software and will have to actually present a working product

• Creativity: How to solve problems when not all steps are completely specified (this what you should try to do with your design/architectural result)
• Intellectual Transformation: How to transform an idea into a product (the first “brainstorming” step is your research canvas, the last one is the final product)
• Leadership: Organize yourselves into a team and arrive to make a final product (you should try to leverage on each other’s competences)
• Making value judgement: Decide which parts are important and which are not (this should be an important part of the process that produce a lean design, as you have no time to make a sophisticated one with parts that you don’t need)

Prof. Fabio Massacci

Teaching Assistants: Anteneh Atumo (Internet Technologies and Architectures), Bernardo Villalba Frías (Embedded Systems), Luca Allodi (Security and Privacy), Stefano Tranquillini (Service Design and Engineering)

Karl T. Ulrich and Steven D. Eppinger. Product Design and Development. 5th edition, Irwin McGraw-Hill, 2012.

There is also an eBook with a subset of the chapters that is used as a textbook for Karl Ulrich's Product Design on-line Course on Coursera for 30$. You can go to McGraw-Hill on-line shop and then search for Karl Ulrich or ISBN:9781308099064.

The following idea for the product by Samy Kamkar has been selected for the 2015 course.

“KeySweeper is a stealthy Arduino-based device, camouflaged as a functioning USB wall charger, that wirelessly and passively sniffs, decrypts, logs and reports back (over GSM) all keystrokes from any Microsoft wireless keyboard in the vicinity. All keystrokes are logged online and locally. SMS alerts are sent upon trigger words, usernames or URLs, exposing passwords. KeySweeper continues to operate using its internal battery. A web based tool allows live keystroke monitoring.”

More details on the idea are available on Samy Kamkar's webpage. Read them.

• Monday - room A220 - 9:30-11:00
• Friday - room A220 - 9:30-12:00 (up to 13:00 on the ShowRoom days)

Date	Topic	Slides	Other Material
2015-02-18	Administrative Information	Lecture 00	Group Division
2015-02-20	Introduction	Introduction
2015-02-25	Concept Design	Customer Needs and Product Specs
2015-02-27	Concept Selection and Testing	Concept Selection and Testing
20015-03-4,6	No lectures	Prepare Concept's Idea Canvas tn_-_04_-_concept_canvas.pptx	For a similar idea look at this video from iMinds https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cq7NmKmwplw
2015-03-11	IPR (Patents, etc.)	Intellectual Property	SEC Filings in 2014 by Google and Pfizer. Example patents on Browser's bookmarks and a Coffee Cup Sleeve
2015-03-13	Concept's idea canvas show at CLC		The two best teams are Key-9 , with the most focussed and low-cost product, and Sniffpy with the most integrated engineered product.
2015-03-16	No lectures	Prepare Design
2015-03-20	Feedback session		Book your group on doodle
2015-03-23	No Lecture	Prepare list of components	Provide to Alessandro Tomasi the list of needed hardware and software components
2015-03-27	Digital Forensic	Lecture by A. Barili, Court's expert for the Garlasco Murder
2015-03-30	Product Architecture	Slides
2015-04-3,6	Eastern Holidays
2015-04-10	No lecture (upon students' request)
2015-04-13	Robust Design	unitn_07_-_robust_design.pdf
2015-04-17	Feedback session
2015-04-24	Feedback session
2015-05-08	Design Poster Show at CLC
2015-05-15	Feedback session
2015-05-22	Feedback session
2015-05-29	Feedback session
2015-06-05	Feedback session
2015-06-19	Product ShowRoom at CLC		Key-9 Summary