EEC 196: Issues in Engineering Design

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EEC 196: Issues in Engineering Design

• Outline:

– Course Information

– Course Objectives

– Relationship with Design Project Classes

– ABET Outcomes and Professional Component

– Definitions

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 EEC 196: Issues In Engineering Design
How To Avoid Becoming a Bad Engineer

• Outline:
– Course Information
– Course Objectives
– Articulation with Design Project Classes
– ABET Outcomes and Professional Component
– Definitions

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 Course Information

General Information Catalog Description

Instructor: Hussain Al-Asaad The course covers various electrical and computer engineering
E-mail: [email protected] standards and realistic design constraints including economic,
Lecture: W 9:00 am – 9:50 am, MDSC C 180 manufacturability, sustainability, ethical, health and safety,
Office Hours: environmental, social, and political.
 In Person: M 2:30pm-3:30pm and W 10:30am-11:30am,
2113 Kemper Hall Course Prerequisites
 Via Zoom: R 6:00pm-7:00pm (Check Canvas) Senior standing in Electrical or Computer Engineering
 After class or via an appointment
TA: Randall Fowler (Email: [email protected]) Tentative Course Outline
 Introduction: Class procedures and definitions of topics
Course Evaluation  The Environmental Challenges
The course grade will be determined based on the following:  Engineering for a Sustainable Future
 Homework (20%).  Health and Safety in the Workplace
 Quizzes (30%).  Manufacturability of Engineering Designs
 Final exam (50%).  The Economics Puzzle: Where does Engineering Fit In?
 How Engineering and the Political World Meet
Course Text  Intellectual Property and Engineering Obligations
No text is required for the class. Reading Material will be  Engineering and Social Responsibility
provided in Canvas.  Guest Lecture

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 Course Objectives

• EEC 196: Supplement the Design

Project Classes by presenting
many of the design constraints and
criteria which professional
engineers regularly deal with.

• You must also take one of these

Technical Senior Design Project
courses:
– EEC 134AB: Pham
– EEC 136AB: Amirtharajah
– EEC 174ABY: Chuah
– EEC 175AB: Sasan
– EEC 181AB: Baas
– EEC 193AB: Special Project
– EEC 195AB: Halsted

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 ABET Outcomes

• Student outcomes are statements that specify the knowledge and skills
expected of a student upon completing an Engineering program.
• Electrical and Computer Engineering students should demonstrate:

 SO 1: an ability to identify, formulate, and solve complex engineering problems by

applying principles of engineering, science, and mathematics.
 SO 2: an ability to apply engineering design to produce solutions that meet specified
needs with consideration of public health, safety, and welfare, as well as global,
cultural, social, environmental, and economic factors.
 SO 3: an ability to communicate effectively with a range of audiences.
 SO 4: an ability to recognize ethical and professional responsibilities in engineering
situations and make informed judgments, which must consider the impact of
engineering solutions in global, economic, environmental, and societal contexts.
 SO 5: an ability to function effectively on a team whose members together provide
leadership, create a collaborative and inclusive environment, establish goals, plan tasks,
and meet objectives.
 SO 6: an ability to develop and conduct appropriate experimentation, analyze and
interpret data, and use engineering judgment to draw conclusions.
 SO 7: an ability to acquire and apply new knowledge as needed, using appropriate
learning strategies.

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ABET Outcomes in Program Required Courses

• Students must be prepared for engineering practice

through the curriculum culminating in a major
design experience based on the knowledge and
skills acquired in earlier course work and
incorporating appropriate engineering standards
and multiple realistic constraints.

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 ABET Professional Component

• Students must be prepared for engineering practice

through the curriculum culminating in a major
design experience based on the knowledge and
skills acquired in earlier course work and
incorporating appropriate engineering standards
and multiple realistic constraints.

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 Definitions of Topics

 The Environmental Challenges

 Engineering for a Sustainable Future
 Health and Safety in the Workplace
 Manufacturability of Engineering Designs
 The Economics Puzzle: Where does Engineering Fit In?
 How Engineering and the Political World Meet
 Intellectual Property and Engineering Obligations
 Engineering and Social Responsibility

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 Economics, Environment and Ethics

• Economics: A social science concerned chiefly with description and analysis of the
production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

• Environment:
– Surrounding influences: all the external factors influencing the life and
activities of people, plants, and animals
– Natural world: the natural world, especially when it is regarded as being at risk
from the harmful influences of human activities

• Ethics:
– The moral principles governing or influencing conduct
– The branch of knowledge concerned with moral principles
– A system of moral principles governing the appropriate conduct for a person or group

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Income Inequality: 1980-2020

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Income Inequality: 1980-2020

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Income Inequality

Life Expectancy

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 Health, Safety and Society

• Health:
– The condition of being sound in body, mind, or spirit; especially freedom from
physical disease or pain
– The general condition of the body <in poor health> <enjoys good health>

• Safety:
– The condition of being safe from undergoing or causing hurt, injury, or loss
– A device designed to prevent inadvertent or hazardous operation

• Society:
– The aggregate of people living together in a more or less ordered community.
– A particular community of people living in a country or region, and having shared
customs, laws, and organizations.

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2020 Beirut Explosion

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California Fires and PG&E

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Face masks: An environmental disaster?

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 Sustainability and Manufacturability

• Sustainability: Capable of being sustained

– Of, relating to, or being a method of harvesting or using a resource so that the
resource is not depleted or permanently damaged <sustainable techniques>
<sustainable agriculture>
– Of or relating to a lifestyle involving the use of sustainable methods <sustainable
society>

• Manufacturability: The ability to manufacture things or products.

The process of proactively designing products to:
– optimize all the manufacturing functions: fabrication, assembly, test,
procurement, shipping, delivery, service, and repair, and
– assure the best cost, quality, reliability, regulatory compliance, safety, time-to-
market, and customer satisfaction.

• Politics:
– The impact the political environment has on engineering decisions
– The impact engineering has on political decisions

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 Ecological Footprint of Growth

• Amount of land and water area a human

population would hypothetically need to
provide the resources required to support itself
and to absorb its wastes, given prevailing American
lifestyle
technology 5
• Widely used as an indicator of environmental
sustainability
• Commonly used to explore the sustainability of
individual lifestyles, goods and services,
organizations, industry sectors, regions and 7.53 billion in 2017
nations
Global
lifestyle
1.7
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 CHIPS and Science Act

Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce

Semiconductors (CHIPS)

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Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co

Chief Executive Officer C. C. Wei

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The Semiconductor Ecosystem Foundries
https://steveblank.com/2022/01/25/the-semiconductor-ecosystem/

Fabless
Chip Chip
users makers

Manufacturing
& process
Equipment
Materials
Electronic
Design

Chip
design

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 Semiconductor market size worldwide from 1987 to 2022 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Semiconductor industry sales worldwide 1987-2022

700

600
Sales in billion U.S. Dollars

500

400

300

200

100

2022*
1987
1988
1989
1990
1991
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
Note(s): Worldwide; 1987 to 2022
2 Further information regarding this statistic can be found on page 8.
Source(s): WSTS; SIA; ID 266973

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Semiconductor companies market revenue worldwide from 2009 to 2021 (in billion U.S. dollars)
Semiconductor companies market revenue worldwide 2009-2021

Samsung Electronics Intel SK Hynix Micron Technology

Qualcomm Broadcom MediaTek Texas Instruments
Nvidia AMD Others STMicroelectronics
Apple Western Digital Infineon Renesas Technology
NXP Kioxia (Toshiba Memory)
800
Revenue in billion U.S. dollars

600

400

200

0
2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021

Note(s): Worldwide; 2009 to 2021

Further information regarding this statistic can be found on page 8.
2 Source(s): Gartner; ID 270590

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United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC)
Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corporation (SMIC)
Global Foundry (GF)

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Global Talent Shortage

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 Education: Compare with others
% UG Degrees in Science or Engineering

25.0

Korea
20.0

Survive
15.0
Natural Sciences
Engineering
10.0

5.0
A Problem

0.0
Asia Europe United
States

Source: NSF Science and Engineering Indicators 2010

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Creating Helpful Incentives to Produce
Semiconductors (CHIPS)

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