Designing for Compliance

Issued by Penn State College of Engineering

In today's highly regulated environment, products must meet stringent safety and performance requirements and be certified in advance of being placed in the market. Earners of this badge have a foundational understanding of Designing for Compliance & can (1) Identify performance & safety standards using product and industry examples, (2) Describe the process for designing to comply with performance and safety standards, & (3) Explain the importance of validating compliance with these standards.

Type Learning
Level Foundational
Time Hours
Cost Free

Skills

Earning Criteria

Students attended a 4-hour workshop led by Len Swantek, Director – Global Regulatory Compliance, Victaulic, and John Stempo, Manager – Global Regulatory Compliance, Victaulic. Instructional content focused on certification requirements, designing for compliance, and identifying product attributes and the corresponding performance standards used to validate each attribute.
Throughout the workshop, earners answered questions related to differences between customer & compliance requirements; key responsibilities of compliance engineers; & factors used to identify existing performance standards as well as the development of new standards. Earners worked in groups to identify key product attributes & corresponding performance tests on a commercial machine part & developed a set of performance attributes & compliance standards for a future standard for water bottles.
Earners of this badge have passed an assessment (at 80% or higher) that evaluated foundational knowledge of Designing for Compliance (bolded to link with the course title), including the key elements of identifying critical attributes and corresponding performance tests, the significance of Compliance Certification, and the steps involved in the validation process.