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1.1 Where and when do engineers design?
Where might engineers work,
What roles are played as the desi...,
What are two types of clients
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1.2 A basic vocabulary for engineering design
What is engineering design,
What is a design objective,
What is a design constraint
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1.3 Learning and doing engineering design
What causes engineering desing pr...,
What makes design problems open e...,
How is engineering design typical...
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1.4 Managing engineering design projects
Name an important element of doin...,
What is project management,
In what terms can all engineering...
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2.1 The design process as a process of questioning
With what questions does the engi...,
Into what categories are the init...,
What is the heart of models of th...
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2.2 Describing and prescribing a design process
Describe the design process in te...,
Map out the design process,
Describe conceptual design
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2.3 Informing a design process
Informing a design process by thinking strategically
Informing a design process with formal design methods
Acquiring design knowledge to inform a design process
Informing a design process with analysis and testing
Getting feedback to inform a design process
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2.4 Getting started on managing the design process
What are the steps of managing th...,
What is meant by project definition,
Define project framework
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2.5 Case study and illustrative examples
Map out the microlaryngeal surgic...,
Explain illustrate the concepts b...,
Make a chart of the design constr...
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3.1 Clarifying the Initial Problem Statement
How do design projects begin,
Describe a problem statement,
What are some flaws of problem st...
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3.2 Framing Customer Requirements
What are two goals to keep in min...,
Describe the process for defining...,
What is necessary to fully unders...
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3.3 Revised Problem Statements
Public Statements Of The Design Project
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4.1 Clarifying A Client's Objectives
List some examples of objectives ...,
List some examples of objectives ...,
What process would make the refin...
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4.2 Measurement Issues In Ordering And Evaluating Objectives
What are crucial characteristics ...,
Why are the following characteris...,
Why are strong measurements desir...
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4.3 Rank Ordering Objectives With Pairwise Comparison Charts
What is a pairwise comparison cha...,
Pairwise comparison charts are ba...,
What is the benefit of a pairwise...
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4.4 Developing Metrics To Measure the Achievement Of Objectives
What makes a metric useful valid,
When might surrogate metrics be i...,
When are surrogate metrics most u...
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5.1 Identifying and setting the client’s limits
What is an important question to ...,
Define contraints,
Why are constraints important to ...
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5.2 Displaying and using constraints
What are two ways in which constr...,
Note an example of constraints di...,
Note an example of constraints di...
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5.3 Constraints for the Danbury arm support
Note an example of two separate l...
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6.1 Establishing Functions
What two things do a bookcase do ...,
What is essential to understand f...,
Define and explain functions
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6.2 Functional Analysis: Tools For Establishing Functions
What is design intended to do,
How do we apply design to transfo...,
What are some tools that can be u...
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6.3 Design specifications: Specifying functions, features and behavior
What do prescriptive specificatio...,
What are the prescriptive values ...,
What do procedural specifications...
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7.1 Generating The “Design Space:” A Space Of Engineering Designs
How do we begin to create actual ...,
What is a design space,
Why are design spaces useful
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7.2 Navigating, Expanding, And Contracting Design Spaces
Why are large design spaces complex,
Explain a small or bounded design...,
How might a design space be expan...
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8.1 Applying Metrics To Objectives: Selecting The Preferred Design
What is the next step after you h...,
Generate a numerical evaluation m...,
Generate a priority benchmark cha...
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15.1 Forming design teams
Why is design increasingly done i...,
What are the stages of group form...,
Describe the forming stage of gro...
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15.2 Constructive conflict: Enjoying a good fight
What is an inevitable by product ...,
What is the essential element und...,
What can we do given that conflic...
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15.3 Leading design teams
What are some behaviors and chara...,
What are some behaviors and chara,
What is one ap
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Statistics
What is an average or mean and ho...,
What is a median,
Of mean median and mode which is ...
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9.1 Engineering sketches and drawings speak to many audiences
During what process is a lot of i...,
What are some different types of ...,
Describe the range and breadth of...
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9.2 Sketching
What is a powerful tool in design,
Why is sketching considered a pow...,
What are orthographic sketches
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9.3 Fabrication specifications: The several forms of engineering drawings
What are layout,
What do detail drawings show,
What do assembly drawings show
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9.4 Fabrication specifications: The devil is in the details
What is the endpoint of a success...,
What do fabrication specification...,
What information must designers i...
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10.1 Prototypes, Models and Proofs Of Concept
What are prototypes,
In what operating environments ar...,
Name an example of artifacts that...
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10.2 Building Models and Prototypes
What is an important consideratio...,
What are two basic choices when w...,
What are three major factors that...
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11.1 General guidelines for technical communication
What are the,
In addition to understanding what...,
What must a design team consider ...
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11.2 Oral presentations: Telling a crowd what’s been done
To whom should a team tailor its ...,
What are important qualities of d...,
What are some important features ...
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11.3 The project report: Writing for the client, not for history
What is the purpose of a final pr...,
What do the clients interests dem...,
How should results be summarized
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12.4 Design Modeling Of A Ladder Rung
What are some considerations for ...,
What are some questions to consid...,
Why do we need a model for the la...
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13.1 Cost estimation: How much does this particular design cost?
How are costs often categorized,
What are included in labor costs,
What are indirect labor costs
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13.2 The time value of money
What is the main principle of tim...,
What are the advantages of having...,
What does the time value of money...
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13.3 Closing considerations on engineering and economics
With what in engineering economic...,
What are the engineering decision...,
Of what is engineering economics ...
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14.1 Design for production: Can this design be made?
What is a term for the desirable ...,
Seeking to realize particular des...,
For what x might an engineer design
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14.2 Design for use: How long will this design work?
What is reliability,
What is a variate what are some e...,
Only under what assumption can we...
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14.3 Designing for sustainability: What about the environment?
What is one reason that some peop...,
How has the engineering professio...,
What does the american society of...
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16.1 Getting started: Establishing the managerial needs of a project
What are the primary three tasks ...,
What are the three ss that compri...,
Describe scope in terms of projec...
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16.2 Tools for managing a project’s scope
What are some examples of additio...,
What are two tools for managing a...,
What is a team charter
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16.3 The team calendar: A tool for managing a project’s schedule
What is a team calendar,
What are some examples of deadlin...,
What are two scheduling tools fre...
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16.4 The budget: A tool for managing a project’s spending
What is a budget in engineering d...,
With what process does the estima...,
How much do engineering firms cha...
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16.5 Monitoring and controlling projects: Measuring a project’s progress
What are some ordinary techniques...,
What is a project monitoring tool...,
What is the percent complete matrix
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16.6 Managing the end of a project
Do projects end with delivery of ...,
What is project postaudit,
What are four elements in a basic...
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17.1 Ethics: Understanding obligations
What is ethics,
What is meant by a moral,
What
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17.2 Codes of ethics: What are our professional obligations?
Imagine you are a mining engineer...,
Explain how the chain of question...,
Do most professional engineering ...
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17.3 Obligations may start with the client...
What do we owe our clients as eng...,
When should engineers or designer...,
How do engineers and designers ap...
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...but what about the public and the profession?
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17.5 On engineering practice and the welfare of the public
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17.6 Ethics: Always a part of engineering practice
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