Business success requires products that are customer focused, reliable, and cost effective. TAP supports product development projects with up to five days of Purdue input at no cost. Extended projects are available on a funded basis.

TAP Supports the Following Product Development Steps

• Design Input and Review: Material selection, electronics, fluid flow, structural, design for assembly, safety, cost, etc.
• Design Method Selection: Circuit design software, Finite Element Analysis, Computational Fluid Mechanics, CAD, use of consulting firms, and others.
• Problem Solving: Circuit board failure, structural failure, corrosion, wear, coating problems, cost reduction, quality problems, and others.
• Product Evaluation and Testing: Metrology, statistical analysis, determination of evaluation standards, analytical chemistry, scanning electron microscopy, optical microscopy, and electronics testing.
• Information Technology: Integration of design systems with other business systems.
• Statistical analyses.

• Projects involving litigation. We can make expert referrals.
• Projects that develop intellectual property. Purdue does this using funded contracts that specify the ownership of intellectual property.

TAP Design Assistance Staff
All are available year-round

• Regina Becker, Manager of Statistical Consulting
• Akin Ecer, Professor of Mechanical Engineering at IUPUI
• John Blendell, Professor of Materials Engineering
• Eric Furgason, Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering
• Mileta Tomovic, Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology
• Bob Santini, Director of Chemistry Instrumentation
• Graduate Assistants, all with one or two engineering degrees and design experience

Please contact us to discuss assistance from TAP.