Designing Engineers

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.

Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Part 1 How Engineers Design -- Introduction -- Design Process Overview -- Project Phases -- Communicating throughout the Process -- What Engineers Design -- How Engineering Projects Are Initiated -- Navigating the Engineering Design Process -- Engineering School Projects -- Part 2 Design Process -- Requirements -- Introduction to Requirements -- Functions -- Objectives -- Constraints -- Documenting the Context -- Describing Stakeholders -- Describing Users, Operators, and Clients -- Characteristics of Good Requirements -- Summary: Putting It All Together -- Multi-use Design Tools -- Functional Basis -- Black Box Method -- Decomposition -- Information Gathering -- Benchmarking -- Pairwise Comparison -- Idea Generation -- Introduction to Idea Generation -- Brainstorming -- Creativity Methods -- Morphological Charts, Analogy, and TRIZ -- Decision-making -- Design Evaluation and Selection -- Selecting a Design Solutiona -- Decision Methods for Teams -- Iterating -- Stages in Iteration: Generate, Select, Reflect -- Suggested Iteration Process -- Reflection Considerations for Iteration -- Investigating Ideas -- Using Metrics -- …