1050- Midterm Exam Guide - Comprehensive Notes for the exam ( 16 pages long!)
12 Oct 2017
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Engineers: design and innovate to solve problems, apply science generated by scientists in their design process, derived from ingenium meaning talent , genius , ability to invent , professional who provides practical, technically sound, creative and innovative solutions. Technical solution is based on scientific principles. Challenge for engineers: open-endedness problems have more than one practical solution. Engineering design creating or formulating a course of action, or form of an object to satisfy a need. Need identification: keep the product focused on customer needs. Objectives desired attributes, can be general or specific: e. g. safety, marketability, environmentally friendly, public acceptance, reliability, often what improves one attribute may worsen another matter of optimization. Illustration method: objectives tree or indented text (show objectives and connections) Constraints limitations or restrictions (must be met), quantitative versions of objectives: limit available solutions by elimination, may lead to a single solution based on optimization (e. g. minimize cost merit function, obj.
