Engineering Design

Engineering design is a creative process for meeting human needs or wants that can result in multiple solutions.

• Limitations (constraints) must be considered when engineering designs.

• Engineering design is a systematic and creative process of communicating and collaborating to meet a design challenge.

• Often, several design solutions exist, each better in some way than the others.

• Engineering design requirements include desired features and limitations that need to be considered.

Engineering design is a systematic, creative and iterative process used to address local and global problems.

• The process includes generating ideas, choosing the best solution, and making, testing, and redesigning models or prototypes.

• Engineering design requirements and specifications involve making trade-offs between competing requirements and desired design features.

Engineering design is a complex process in which creativity, content knowledge, research, and analysis are used to address local and global problems.

• Decisions on trade-offs involve systematic comparisons of all costs and benefits, and final steps that may involve redesigning for optimization.

• Engineering design evaluation, a process for determining how well a solution meets requirements, involves systematic comparisons between requirements, specifications, and constraints.