1. Engineering Design Process

2. Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Understand Problem
Understand
Problem
Concept
Exploration &
Selection
Analyze &
Prototype
Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Integration & Test

3. Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Concept Exploration
Understand
Problem
Concept
Exploration &
Selection
Analyze &
Prototype
Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Integration & Test
Brain Storming
No idea is a bad idea
Focus on quantity
Withhold criticism
Combine and improve ideas

4. Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Analyze and Prototype
Understand
Problem
Concept
Exploration &
Selection
Analyze &
Prototype
Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Integration & Test
Analysis
Simple Models
Prototyping
Find and solve problems early
Cardboard
Trade Studies
Analytically determines best choice

5. Design & Manufacturing
Understand
Problem
Concept
Exploration &
Selection
Analyze &
Prototype
Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Integration & Test
Most of your time is spent here!
A better job designing makes manufacturing easier.
Fabricate components of the robot (division of labor).

6. Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Integration & Test
Understand
Problem
Concept
Exploration &
Selection
Analyze &
Prototype
Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Integration & Test
Integration
Bringing smaller pieces together into a larger system
Assembling components (arm to base, wheel to base, load software)
Testing
Incremental
Components
Subassemblies
Entire system
You are not done until it is tested!!
Aerospace: Test like you Fly!

7. Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Iterative Process
Understand
Problem
Concept
Exploration &
Selection
Analyze &
Prototype
Detailed Design & Manufacturing
Integration & Test
Your first design is never perfect
But a good starting point gets you an answer faster and cheaper
The only people, scientific or other
who never make mistakes are
those who do nothing.
- Thomas Huxley

8. Questions?