Designing Engineers
An Introductory Text
1. Edition March 2015
624 Pages, Softcover
Wiley & Sons Ltd
Short Description
Many colleges of engineering are seeking to give students more exposure to design early in the curriculum. One approach has been to develop project-based, design-centered courses for first-year students, but few texts on design are at the right level for first-year students. Designing Engineers: An Introductory Textbook has been created to meet this need. It has evolved from one of the largest and most successful first-year engineering design programs, taught to over 1,000 students annually at the University of Toronto.
Designing Engineers is written in short modules, where each module is built around a specific learning outcome and is cross-referenced to the other modules that should be read as pre-requisites, and could be read in tandem with or following that module. The book begins with a brief orientation to the design process, followed by coverage of the design process in a series of short modules. The rest of the book contains a set of modules organized in several major categories: Communication & Critical Thinking, Teamwork & Project Management, and Design for Specific Factors (e.g. environmental, human factors, intellectual property). A resource section provides brief reference material on economics, failure and risk, probability and statistics, principles & problem solving, and estimation.
Many colleges of engineering are seeking to give students more exposure to design early in the curriculum. One approach has been to develop project-based, design-centered courses for first-year students, but few texts on design are at the right level for first-year students. Designing Engineers: An Introductory Textbook has been created to meet this need. It has evolved from one of the largest and most successful first-year engineering design programs, taught to over 1,000 students annually at the University of Toronto.
Designing Engineers is written in short modules, where each module is built around a specific learning outcome and is cross-referenced to the other modules that should be read as pre-requisites, and could be read in tandem with or following that module. The book begins with a brief orientation to the design process, followed by coverage of the design process in a series of short modules. The rest of the book contains a set of modules organized in several major categories: Communication & Critical Thinking, Teamwork & Project Management, and Design for Specific Factors (e.g. environmental, human factors, intellectual property). A resource section provides brief reference material on economics, failure and risk, probability and statistics, principles & problem solving, and estimation.
Orientation
1. Introduction
2. Design Process Review
3. Phases of a project
4. Communicating through the process
5. What engineers design
6. How design projects are initiated
Navigation
1. The core process cycle
2. School projects
The Core Engineering Design Process
1. Requirements Generation 2. Multi-use Design Tools
3. Idea Generation
4. Decision Making
5. Iterating
6. Investigating Ideas
7. Post-conceptual Design
Appendices
Appendix A: Communication & Critical Thinking
1. Critical Thinking
2. Communication
-Written
-Visual
3. Audio-Visual
Appendix B: Teamwork & Project Management
Teamwork
1. Project Management
Basics of Project Management
Advanced Project Management
Instructions for PM software
1. Interacting with a Client
Appendix C: Design for X
Design for Durability
Design for the Environment
Design for Flexibility
Design for Human Factors
Design for Intellectual Property
Design for Manufacturability
Design for Safety
Design for Testing & Maintenance
Appendix D: Resources
Principles & Problem Solving
Economics
Probability & Statistics
Failure & Risk
Estimation
Case Studies
Glossary