ENGINEERING
DESIGN
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The Synergy of a Design Process
Throughout the semester as a student, I have looked at several design ideation processes. I have outlined a few exemplary processes that have guided me throughout previous designs.
In addition, I have developed my own design process. This process is also clearly shown through some of my work as an engineer and provides a framework to future projects.
[1] This process outlines scoping extremley well by showing that there are immense amounts of solutions and information. However, good engineering design consists of selecting feasible alternatives and relavent data.
[1] Although extremely linear, this process shows that it is important to clearly recognize and frame a problem before beginning to design a solution. By this recognition and definition stage, an engineer sets themselves up to effectively collect data and design alternatives.
[2] This process is important in showing the synergy of many different design objectives when determining which alternative should be selected. It combines the concept of judging criterion outlined in the other two processes with a cyclical iteration process against several DFX's
My Design Process (Click on any step to learn more)
[1]D. G. Newnan, Engineering Economic Analysis, United States: Engineering Press, 1976.
[2]A. Ertas, The Engineering Design Porcess, Toronto: John Wiley and Stone. Inc, 1993.