EGR 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 2: Reverse Engineering, Functional Analysis, Literature Review
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Chapter 2: defining a design process and a case study. 2. 1: the design process as a process of questioning. The designer, when presented with a project, has several tasks. The first one is to clarify the client"s intentions. Thus, these questions help move us from a problem statement with increasing detail into a specific and final product. The key first step is to identify client specifications, or descriptions in engineering terms how the design needs to function or behave. Then we choose a concept, model it, analyze it, test it, evaluate it, refine it, optimize it, and document the justification for the design and the specifications. Some of the early clarifications will obviously affect the later tasks and decisions; depending on the desired function, cost, and feel, different materials and forms will be utilized. We need other ways to think about that. Of course, there will be a vast array of choices to make.
