MODELING AN ABBREVIATED PRODUCT DESIGN CYCLE IN A FIRST-YEAR ENGINEERING DESIGN COURSE

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Kristine Sheridan ◽  
Jason A Foster ◽  
Geoffrey S Frost
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Design Project ◽  
University Of Toronto ◽  
Praxis Ii ◽  
Engineering Communication ◽  
Detail Design ◽  
Praxis I ◽  
Design Experience

All Engineering Science students at the University of Toronto take the cornerstone Praxis Sequence of engineering design courses. In the first course in the sequence, Praxis I, students practice three types of engineering design across three distinct design projects. Previously the final design project had the students first frame and then develop conceptual design solutions for a self-identified challenge. While this project succeeded in providing an appropriate foundational design experience, it failed to fully prepare students for the more complex design experience in Praxis II. The project also failed to ingrain the need for clear and concise engineering communication, and the students’ lack of understanding of detail design inhibited their ability to make practical and realistic design decisions. A revised Product Design project in Praxis I was designed with the primary aims of: (a) pushing students beyond the conceptual design phase of the design process, and (b) simulating a real-world work environment by: (i) increasing the interdependence between student teams and (ii) increasing the students’ perceived value of engineering communication.

scholarly journals Assistive Technology for Freshmen Design and K-12 Outreach

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Devin R. Berg ◽  
Matthew Wigdahl ◽  
Charis D. Collins
Keyword(s):  
General Education ◽  
Assistive Technology ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Project Based Learning ◽  
Qualitative Assessment ◽  
Societal Implications ◽  
Design Project ◽  
K 12 ◽  
The University ◽  
Design Experience

This Work in Progress paper presents on the design of project-based learning approach focused on assistive technology as applied in a freshmen level engineering course which also integrates outreach with the local K12 system. The university course targets general education topics as well as an introductory engineering design experience and includes content on the engineering design process, societal implications of engineering design, and a participatory lab-based design project. A partnering class of 5th graders from a local elementary school made use of a daily block of time set aside for academic interventions and individual project-based work to collaborate with the university class. A qualitative assessment was conducted and has thus far has revealed that the university students found the assistive technology theme of the semester-long design project to be meaningful. For the K12 students, the survey results and anecdotal observations suggest that we were only moderately successful in constructing a meaningful and purposeful design experience, from their perspective.

Robust engineering design post-Taguchi

1989 ◽  
Vol 327 (1596) ◽  
pp. 605-616 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Quality Control ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Manufacturing Process ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Fundamental Idea ◽  
Design For Manufacture ◽  
Modern Engineering ◽  
Robust Engineering Design

A fundamental idea has emerged from the study of the work of Genichi Taguchi in off-line quality control. A product should be designed so that it is robust against variations in the manufacturing process and the environment in which it is used. But the idea is not entirely new. It appears in various forms in the vogues and syntax of modern engineering design. Thus we have ‘design to product’, ‘design for manufacture’, ‘conceptual design and innovation’, ‘systematic methodologies’ and so forth. It is the ability to describe robustness in statistical terms that ought to create a change in design thinking. But for this to happen professionals on both sides need to understand each other’s language. The paper attempts to bridge the gap by drawing heavily on the language of engineering design and giving recent examples of product design where both modes of thinking have benefited from each other.

scholarly journals A Tool for Systematically Accessing the Level of Readiness of Engineering Design in Product Development

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Behdinan ◽  
M. Fahimian ◽  
R. Pop-Iliev
Keyword(s):  
Product Development ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Engineering Design ◽  
Design Process ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Top Down ◽  
Technical Point ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
Readiness Level

 Abstract – This paper introduces a top down, system-engineering approach to develop a quantifiable and systematic tool, referred to as Design Readiness Level (DRL), to gauge design at each stage of product development. It is developed to facilitate communication between different stockholders of a design project and to address the complexities arising during all the phases of product design, from initiation to completion. The design process as one of the pillars of DRL has been studied thoroughly and is categorized into nine stages to reflect the technical flow in product development. The design stages are iterative at any level from 1 to 9 and have distinctive deliverables at the end of each stage. The deliverables simplify and characterize the assessment of the design from the technical point of view. Developing a comprehensive DRL metrics that encompasses all the stockholders’ perspectives in a design is a work in progress.

A complex-number-domain-based conceptual design synthesis for multidisciplinary products

2016 ◽  
Vol 231 (7) ◽  
pp. 1292-1307 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bin Chen ◽  
You-Bai Xie
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Complex Number ◽  
Hydroelectric Power ◽  
Design Synthesis ◽  
Design Scheme ◽  
Detail Design ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Function Unit ◽  
The Rich

With the increase of the customer demands for the products, multidisciplinary products are gradually becoming more competitive than the traditional products. Considering conceptual design synthesis is the core phase of the product design and its result is the starting point of the next detail design works, if the rich resources in multiple disciplinary domains can be fully used during this phase, the efficiency of multidisciplinary product design will be largely promoted. Therefore, we proposed a novel conceptual design synthesis system for multidisciplinary products, which consists of three parts, i.e. basic framework, complex-number-domain-based mathematical model, and achieving approach. In the framework, three groups of concepts were defined and the conceptual design synthesis was concluded into three steps. The model can completely describe and modularize the function units which are the basic components of a design scheme. Based on the model, the achieving approach can automatically generate stable objective function unit chains which can directly construct the design scheme. Finally, the design of a multifunctional agricultural hydroelectric power system was taken as an illustration to prove the practicability of this proposed system.

scholarly journals Metrics for Measuring Sustainable Product Design Concepts

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (12) ◽  
pp. 3469
Author(s):  
Ji Han ◽  
Pingfei Jiang ◽  
Peter R. N. Childs
Keyword(s):  
Product Design ◽  
End Of Life ◽  
Environmental Impacts ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Design Stage ◽  
Sustainable Product Design ◽  
Early Design ◽  
Design Concepts ◽  
Concept Evaluation ◽  
Sustainable Product

Although products can contribute to ecosystems positively, they can cause negative environmental impacts throughout their life cycles, from obtaining raw material, production, and use, to end of life. It is reported that most negative environmental impacts are decided at early design phases, which suggests that the determination of product sustainability should be considered as early as possible, such as during the conceptual design stage, when it is still possible to modify the design concept. However, most of the existing concept evaluation methods or tools are focused on assessing the feasibility or creativity of the concepts generated, lacking the measurements of sustainability of concepts. The paper explores key factors related to sustainable design with regard to environmental impacts, and describes a set of objective measures of sustainable product design concept evaluation, namely, material, production, use, and end of life. The rationales of the four metrics are discussed, with corresponding measurements. A case study is conducted to demonstrate the use and effectiveness of the metrics for evaluating product design concepts. The paper is the first study to explore the measurement of product design sustainability focusing on the conceptual design stage. It can be used as a guideline to measure the level of sustainability of product design concepts to support designers in developing sustainable products. Most significantly, it urges the considerations of sustainability design aspects at early design phases, and also provides a new research direction in concept evaluation regarding sustainability.

Applying Function-Based Failure Propagation in Conceptual Design

2007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Krus ◽  
Katie Grantham Lough
Keyword(s):  
Risk Analysis ◽  
Product Design ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Functional Model ◽  
Thermal Control ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
Historical Knowledge ◽  
Conceptual Design Phase ◽  
Failure Propagation ◽  
Potential Risks

When designing a product, the earlier the potential risks can be identified, the more costs can be saved, as it is easier to modify a design in its early stages. Several methods exist to analyze the risk in a system, but all require a mature design. However, by applying the concept of “common interfaces” to a functional model and utilizing a historical knowledge base, it is possible to analyze chains of failures during the conceptual phase of product design. This paper presents a method based on these “common interfaces” to be used in conjunction with other methods such as Risk in Early Design in order to allow a more complete risk analysis during the conceptual design phase. Finally, application of this method is demonstrated in a design setting by applying it to a thermal control subsystem.

Building Design Experience and a Greater Sense of Community through an Integrated Design Project

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joshua Hamel ◽  
Claire Strebinger ◽  
Eric Gilbertson ◽  
Yen-Lin Han ◽  
Kathleen Cook ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sense Of Community ◽  
Integrated Design ◽  
Building Design ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Design Experience

Two Approaches to the Induction of Graph-Rewriting Rules for Function-Based Design Synthesis

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julian R. Eichhoff ◽  
Felix Baumann ◽  
Dieter Roller
Keyword(s):  
Engineering Design ◽  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Automatic Generation ◽  
Production Rules ◽  
Design Synthesis ◽  
Graph Rewriting ◽  
Conceptual Engineering ◽  
Frequent Subgraph ◽  
Rule Set ◽  
Rewriting Rules

In this paper we demonstrate and compare two complementary approaches to the automatic generation of production rules from a set of given graphs representing sample designs. The first approach generates a complete rule set from scratch by means of frequent subgraph discovery. Whereas the second approach is intended to learn additional rules that fit an existing, yet incomplete, rule set using genetic programming. Both approaches have been developed and tested in the context of an application for automated conceptual engineering design, more specifically functional decomposition. They can be considered feasible, complementary approaches to the automatic inference of graph rewriting rules for conceptual design applications.

The development of a Single-Well Oil Production System

1982 ◽  
Vol 307 (1499) ◽  
pp. 279-287
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Design ◽  
Production System ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
Design Phase ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Detail Design ◽  
Single Well ◽  
Operational Criteria

Since early 1980, BP has been developing the conceptual design of a Single-Well Oil Production System or SWOPS. This paper outlines the concept and discusses the design and the operational criteria that have been applied in this early work. It further examines some of the innovative areas of technology that have been included in this new approach and outlines the work of the detail design phase, which has just started.

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