Unit 1
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Focus and Objectives of Course
• Basics of Engineering Design
• Selection of Engineering Materials for Mechanical Design
• Analysis of Machine Elements
• Need Analysis & Concept, Synthesis, Design, Modeling,
Fabrication and Characterization of a complete system
or a product.
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Course Summary
• Focus on:
– Identifying the need and developing concepts
– Analysis of Machine Elements and Synthesis
– Materials Selection
– Synthesis, Design, Modeling, Fabrication and
Characterization of a product or system
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Engineering Design: Key Roles in
Design Process
• Client: A person or
Client group or company that
wants a design
conceived
• User: A person who
will employ or operate
whatever is being
designed
Designer User • Designer: Solve the
client’s problem in a
way that meets the
user’s needs
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Engineering Design: Definitions
• Engineering design is a systematic, intelligent process
in which engineers generate, evaluate, and specify
solutions for devices, systems, or processes whose
form(s) and function(s) achieve clients’ objectives and
users’ needs while satisfying a specified set of
constraints.
• In other words, engineering design is a thoughtful
process for generating plans or schemes for devices,
systems, or processes that attain given objectives
while adhering to specified constraints.
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Key Definitions
• Design objective: A feature or behavior that the
design should have or exhibit
• Design constraint: A limit or restriction on the features or
behaviors of the design. A proposed design is
unacceptable if these limits are violated
• Functions: Things a designed device or
system is supposed to do.
Engineering functions almost always involve transforming
or transferring energy, information, or material. It includes
supporting and transmitting forces, the flow of current, the
flow of charge, the transfer of material, and so on.
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Key Definitions
• Means: A way or a method to make a function happen
e.g. friction is a means of fulfilling a function of applying
a braking force
• Form: The shape and structure of something as
distinguished from its material.
We will not deal with form but form is central to industrial
design, a very important part of product design.
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Measuring Success of Engineering
Design
• Metric: A standard of measurement; in the context of
engineering design, a scale on which the
achievement of a design’s objectives can be
measured and assessed.
• Specifications: A scale on which the achievement of a
design’s functions can be measured. Specifications are
engineering statements of the extent to which functions
are performed by a design.
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Design Process
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Design Process
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Design Process Steps
• Identify the need. Understand the need.
• Describe the need: what is desired,
what is undesired. Constraints. Break
Pathfinding
down the problem in parts.
• Research: what exists out there overall and for
sub-problems.
• Identify options: that could meet the
requirements/constraints.
• Analyze, evaluate: effectiveness of options.
Technolog
Modify, combine as needed. Select most
y
effective option.
Selection
• Detailed design: CAD, stress analysis,
manufacturing specs. Technology
• Prototyping and Testing Development
• Manufacturing process design Ramp &
• Production. High-volume
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