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Lecture 02

This document discusses engineering design and the senior design process. It defines design, outlines the design process, and explains the expectations and objectives for senior design projects. Key aspects of design discussed are being multidisciplinary, addressing customer needs through quantitative constraints, and considering practical factors like sustainability.

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ECE 8443

ENGR 4169––Pattern Recognition


Engineering Seminar

LECTURE 02: ENGINEERING DESIGN

• Question: What is the difference between engineering


design and system integration? Examples?
• Objectives:
Definition of Design
The Design Process
Expectations in Senior Design

• Resources:
Wiki: Engineering Design
NASA: Design Process
EWB: Design Process
SU: Design Lecture
MIT: Design and Prototyping
S.K.: Engineering Design

URL: Audio:
Motivation

“The scientist seeks to understand


what is; the engineer seeks to create
what never was”
Theodore von Karman
“The Father of Supersonic Flight”
1881 – 1963
(http://www.nmspacemuseum.org/halloffame/detail.php?id=31)

ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 2


Design According to Merriam-Webster

helenloe@temple.edu

ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 3


Design According to Wikipedia

“Design is the planning that lays the basis for


the making of every object or system. It can
be used both as a noun and as a verb and, in a
broader way, it means applied arts and
engineering.
As a verb, "to design" refers to the process of
originating and developing a plan for a product,
structure, system, or component with intention.

helenloe@temple.edu
As a noun, "a design" is used for either the final (solution) plan (e.g. proposal,
drawing, model, description) or the result of implementing that plan in the form
of the final product of a design process.
This classification aside, in its broadest sense no other limitations exist and the
final product can be anything from clothing to graphical user interfaces to
skyscrapers. Even virtual concepts such as corporate identity and cultural
traditions such as celebration of certain holidays are sometimes designed.
More recently, processes (in general) have also been treated as products of
design, giving new meaning to the term process design.

ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 4


Design According to ABET

In the ABET handbook on accrediting engineering


programs, it states:
“Students must be prepared for engineering practice
through the curriculum culminating in a major design
experience based on the knowledge and skills acquired
in earlier course work and incorporating engineering
standards and realistic constraints that include most of
the following considerations: economic; environmental;
sustainability; manufacturability; ethical; health and safety;
social; and political.” helenloe@temple.edu
In Temple’s College of Engineering, we focus on a few important aspects of
design:
Multidisciplinary
Customer-driven, aggressive quantitative design constraints
Incorporation of practical considerations such as energy and sustainability
Project management
Professional communication
ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 5
Example: Designing a Car

• Consider how an engineer buys a car

helenloe@temple.edu

ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 6


The Essence of Senior Design
• Senior Design is not about:
 creating a unique project concept
 inventing a new gadget
 doing something that has never been done before

• Senior Design is about:


 Translating customer needs into quantitative design constraints
 Optimizing a design to meet these constraints
 Verifying that your design meets these constraints
 Fabricating a prototype to demonstrate proof of concept.

• Key elements of this class include:


 Learning how to communicate your ideas to management and the customer
 Appreciating the multidisciplinary aspects of engineering design
 Understanding how practical constraints such as cost and sustainability
influence the design process at every step.
ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 7
Product Development Trade-offs
Performance

Schedule Risk

Cost

• Performance: ability to do the primary mission

• Cost: development, operation life-cycle cost

• Schedule: time to first unit, production rate

• Risk: of technical and/or financial failure

ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 8


An Iterative Design Process

Problem
Test Verification Design Constraints

Hardware
Implementation Design

Test Verification Test Specification

Prototyping Simulation
Test Verification

ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 9


Example: How does an engineer design a car?

helenloe@temple.edu

ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 10


Summary
• You MUST have a senior design project approved by the course instructor
BEFORE you enter Senior Design I.
• You MUST have a faculty member in the College of Engineering agree to serve
as your primary project advisor.
• Good senior design projects focus more on the design aspects of the problem
rather than innovation or invention.
• Projects must address real-world concerns such as size, power, weight, and
environmental impact.
• Teams should ideally consist of 4 members spanning each department.
• Finally…

Enjoy Engineering Seminar – everything you are seeing


was put there for a reason ;)

ENGR 4169: Lecture 02, Slide 11

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