ENGINEER 1P03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Pneumatics, Goal Orientation, Functional Skills Qualification

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Engineering (General)
• Course: ENGINEER 1P03
• Professor: Robert Fleisig

Document Summary

Tendency is to draw conclusions as quickly as we can, and this is not effective. To help you make decisions of what is a better or worse alternative. Setting direction (not to actually give you the answer) Picking an endpoint vs. deciding how to choose an endpoint. What determines a good solution, instead of what the solution is. Next step is to looking at alternatives and testing them against your design. We generate concepts or schemes of design alternatives or possible acceptable designs. Functional design needs to be done really well, key to the project and value to the client, and where the ingenuity comes in. 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. Abstracting what something does from what you see.