Designing Engineers An Introductory Text

by McCahan, Susan; Anderson, Phil; Kortschot, Mark; Weiss, Peter E.; Woodhouse, Kimberly A.

• ISBN13: 9781119063162
• ISBN10: 1119063167
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Loose-leaf
• Copyright: 2015-07-13
• Publisher: Wiley

Summary

Designing Engineers First Edition 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.

Author Biography

Susan McCahan is currently the Vice Dean, Undergraduate in the Faculty of Applied Science & Engineering at the University of Toronto. She joined the Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering at Toronto in 1992. From 2006 to 2011 she served as Chair of First Year for the Faculty. Her research area is energy systems and engineering education. She is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in recognition of contributions to engineering education has been the recipient of several major teaching awards including the 3M National Teaching Fellowship and the Medal of Distinction in Engineering Education from Engineers Canada. She was also part of the team of instructors that received the Alan Blizzard Award for collaborative teaching in 2007. She has developed and taught courses on energy systems, heat transfer, and combustion. Professor McCahan's current research focuses on the design of the engineering education environment.

Table of Contents

Entering the Design Process

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