ENGINEER 1P03 Lecture Notes - Fall 2018 Lecture 1 - Drinking straw, Chicken scratch, Functional design

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Engineering
• Course: ENGINEER 1P03
• Professor: Elizabeth Hassan, Robert Fleisig

Document Summary

Functional design is the part of the design process that starts with an already defined direction (i. e. , objectives), and directs you to explore various possible combinations of. What" (functions) and how" (means) in order to find the concept that best meets those objectives. The goal of functional design is to generate multiple design alternatives to a functional (or design-to specification) design problem. Function and forms and means functions n: things a designed device or system is supposed to do. Engineering functions almost always involve transforming or transferring energy, information, or material. We view energy transformation or transfer quite broadly: it includes supporting and transmitting forces, the flow of current, the flow of charge, the transfer of material, and so on (a function is the abstraction/idea of two or more means) Means n: a way or a method to make a function happen.