MEC E260 Midterm: MEC E 260 Section 2

• School: University of Alberta
• Department: Mechanical Engineering
• Course: MEC E260
• Professor: Cagri Ayranci

Document Summary

Mec e 260 section 2 conceptual design stage. Should be interested in how things work. During brainstorming, all ideas are welcome and should be recorded. Concluded by the analysis stage which includes evaluating the list of ideas and ranking them. Wrong conceptions: there"s only one right idea, ideas should be logical and follow rules, don"t want to be playful or foolish. Concepts are compared to some target: relative. Concepts are compared to each other using defined criteria"s. Feasibility judgement (gut feel: not feasible. It will never work, as why: might be feasible. Could work if certain conditions changed: worth considering. Not good or bad, just one worth considering. Decision matrix: choose the criteria for comparison. Cost, time, safety : select a rating system. What will it be out of? (normalizing, ex. Putting everything out of 10 with the highest number being 10/10: develop a relative importance weighting.