APS111H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 31: Payback Period, Level Of Measurement
27 Nov 2015
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Aps111 lecture 31 design process 8. Stakeholder analysis: high influence & low interest. Government: high interest & high influence. Users: low influence & low interest. Public: high interest & low influence. The engineering design process: define the problem, do background research, specify requirements, brainstorm, evaluate, and choose solution, develop and prototype solution, test solution, solution meet requirements (if not, review and test again, communicate results. Challenges - objectives: what metric would you use for. Plan to spend time and effort to determine metrics and their importance. Challenges - alternatives: estimating the metrics for each alternative. Data and data availability can be limiting factors. Challenges - stakeholders: resolving conflicts among objectives. Different objectives will have different degrees of importance (safety vs. Importance of the different objectives will often be different: resolving conflicts among stakeholder interests. Methods for choosing among alternatives: quantitative (economic) analyses. Present worth factor: non-economic quantitative and qualitative approaches. Ranking (i. e. qualitative scale, ordinal scale, voting)
