Engineering Fundamentals: An Introduction to Engineering, 4th ed.c

82 Chapter 3 Introduction to Engineering Design

Summary

Now that you have reached this point in the text

• You should know the basic design steps that all engineers follow, regardless of their back-
  ground, to design products and services. These steps are: (1) recognizing the need for a
  product or a service, (2) defining and understanding the problem (the need) completely, (3)
  doing the preliminary research and preparation, (4) conceptualizing ideas for possible solu-
  tions, (5) synthesizing the results, (6) evaluating good ideas in more detail, (7) optimizing the
  solution to arrive at the best possible solution, (8) and presenting the solution.


• You should realize that economics plays an important role in engineering decision making.


• You should realize that the selection of material is an important design decision.


• You should be familiar with the common traits of good teams.


• You should understand the importance of project management.


• You should be familiar with the concepts of patent, trademark, and copyright.


• You should know why we need to have standards and codes in engineering.


• You should be familiar with the role and mission of some of the larger standardization organiza-
  tions in the world, such as ANSI, ASTM, BSI, CSA, ISO, CSBTS, SIS, C, AFNOR, and DIN.


• You should be familiar with the role of the EPA and the standards it sets for drinking water,
  outdoor air quality, and indoor air quality.


• You should be able to name some of the sources of indoor and outdoor air pollutants.


• You should be able to name some of the sources of water pollutants.

3.1. List at least ten products that already exist, which you

use, that are constantly being modified to take advan-

tage of new technologies

3.2. List five products that are not currently on the market,

which could be useful to us, and will most likely be

designed by engineers and others.

3.3. List five sports-related products that you think should

be designed to make playing sports more fun.

3.4. List five internet-based services that are not currently avail-

able, but that you think will eventually become realities.

3.5. You have seen bottle and container caps in use all around

you. Investigate the design of bottle caps used in the

Problems

and processes that are more benign for human health

and the environment. While in the past, environmen-

tal organizations like Clean Production Action worked

in opposition to industry, now there are opportunities

to partner with proactive companies ranging from

manufacturers of cleaning products to major electron-

ics firms and retailers to create the positive change we

want to see in the world. Examples include Apple,

IBM, Hewlett Packard, Wal-Mart, Staples, Method

Home, Seventh Generation, and more.

Engineers are designers. While environmental

engineers may not typically work as product designers,

no matter where we work in the value chain, we need to

design solutions not only with consideration of cost and

performance, but with the entire environmental, eco-

nomic, and social system in mind.

Source:Courtesy of Lauren Heine

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