ENGR 185EW Study Guide - Midterm Guide: W. D. Ross, Categorical Imperative, Polarized Light Microscopy
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Unmet need: something customer wants, not addressed, equivalent to problem statement. Report: abstract, toc, intro, market, product, risk/ mitigation, financial summary, delivery date/ milestones, summary and rec, appendix. Tree t pee: reduce moisture loss and water waste. Conops: characteristics of proposed system from viewpoint of user, what customer wants, independent of technical limits. Mitigate risk: risk tolerance (triton: filter o2 fail) Blood analysis using drops, 100s tests using edison . Service was a lie, pivoted to minilab machine, 40 tests. Fmeca: failure modes, effects, criticality, analysis (3 revs!) Failure mode, cause, effect, spd, risk priority #, mitigation. You can never underestimate what people will do . Product cost 4-5x bom, break even <1 year, 10x return life. # of units = development cost / (price-bom cost) Development cost = r&d, capital equipment, minimum order quantity (moq), non-reoccurring engineering cost (nre) Normative: virtue, deontology, consequentialism attributes, rules, outcome of action depends, never moral, depends on result.
