Abstract
Product design and development is one of the advanced level subjects taught in Engineering schools in 4th year at Undergraduate level. It is usually a 3-4 credit hours course where 1 hour may be used as a Tutorial or Laboratory with extra contact hours. The subject covers fundamentals of a product development process and various phases of technical design process from planning to testing of prototypes and even economic analysis. The subject could be extremely boring for the students if taught purely as a theoretical approach to new product design process or could be an immensely exciting if some hands on practices, learning/using of advanced Engineering software and a semester project is included in its delivery. The teachers may follow any approach depending upon the assigned credit hours to the course or their own industrial background and teaching preferences. Present study results are an outcome of at least over 5 years of teaching this course for well over 10 times to undergraduate students in a private sector university in Saudi Arabia. The author established that this course requires more than 4 credit hours of class room lectures and at least 3 contact hours laboratory work. Such an effort by the teacher as well as students could produce some wonderful tangible outcomes at the end of course. These may include innovative design of new products, research papers, posters and even patents sometimes. The paper also provides various methodologies of teaching students with examples of products that increased their interest in the subject.