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Engineering Design > 17.5 On engineering practice and the welfare of the public > Flashcards

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Engineering Design (57 decks)

1.1 Where and when do engineers design?

1.2 A basic vocabulary for engineering design

1.3 Learning and doing engineering design

1.4 Managing engineering design projects

2.1 The design process as a process of questioning

2.2 Describing and prescribing a design process

2.3 Informing a design process

2.4 Getting started on managing the design process

2.5 Case study and illustrative examples

3.1 Clarifying the Initial Problem Statement

3.2 Framing Customer Requirements

3.3 Revised Problem Statements

4.1 Clarifying A Client's Objectives

4.2 Measurement Issues In Ordering And Evaluating Objectives

4.3 Rank Ordering Objectives With Pairwise Comparison Charts

4.4 Developing Metrics To Measure the Achievement Of Objectives

5.1 Identifying and setting the client’s limits

5.2 Displaying and using constraints

5.3 Constraints for the Danbury arm support

6.1 Establishing Functions

6.2 Functional Analysis: Tools For Establishing Functions

6.3 Design specifications: Specifying functions, features and behavior

7.1 Generating The “Design Space:” A Space Of Engineering Designs

7.2 Navigating, Expanding, And Contracting Design Spaces

8.1 Applying Metrics To Objectives: Selecting The Preferred Design

15.1 Forming design teams

15.2 Constructive conflict: Enjoying a good fight

15.3 Leading design teams

9.1 Engineering sketches and drawings speak to many audiences

9.3 Fabrication specifications: The several forms of engineering drawings

9.4 Fabrication specifications: The devil is in the details

10.1 Prototypes, Models and Proofs Of Concept

10.2 Building Models and Prototypes

11.1 General guidelines for technical communication

11.2 Oral presentations: Telling a crowd what’s been done

11.3 The project report: Writing for the client, not for history

12.4 Design Modeling Of A Ladder Rung

13.1 Cost estimation: How much does this particular design cost?

13.2 The time value of money

13.3 Closing considerations on engineering and economics

14.1 Design for production: Can this design be made?

14.2 Design for use: How long will this design work?

14.3 Designing for sustainability: What about the environment?

16.1 Getting started: Establishing the managerial needs of a project

16.2 Tools for managing a project’s scope

16.3 The team calendar: A tool for managing a project’s schedule

16.4 The budget: A tool for managing a project’s spending

16.5 Monitoring and controlling projects: Measuring a project’s progress

16.6 Managing the end of a project

17.1 Ethics: Understanding obligations

17.2 Codes of ethics: What are our professional obligations?

17.3 Obligations may start with the client...

...but what about the public and the profession?

17.5 On engineering practice and the welfare of the public

17.6 Ethics: Always a part of engineering practice

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