Engineering Design
An Overview
Abstract
This chapter deals with the basic questions of what is meant by the term design in engineering terms. It considers the typical external forces that drive design and the internal activities and feedback iterations that constitute the design process.
It then goes on to consider how technology has impacted on this process and led to design evolution, and closes with an introduction to the triple bottom line concept.
Keywords
Design
Design process
Feedback evolution
Designer attributes
attention to detail
1.1 What Is Design?
Design encompasses many fields and can be described as a creative process that brings into being a new product, concept, or process using subjective or qualitative means.
A new design may ...
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