1. Design Process

2. Engineering design is a systematic, creative, and iterative (repetitive)process for addressing challenges. When a manufacturing can produce a product over and over the same way every time. They might have an assembly line that uses people or robots. They use a design process.

3. When designing, engineers must make informed choices based upon the following:
knowledge about the design problem
revising the choices at any point in the process
restraints like time and money

4. Requirements of a Design
Time
Money
Resources
People

5. Informed Design method for making choices based on design problem
method for making choice based on knowledge about the design problem and then revising as needed
process of making choices and decisions that lead to an acceptable solution

6. Professionals
Professionals that might use the informed design process include:
Engineers
Technologists
Designers (artists)
Architects

7. Identify the problem to be solved
First Step
Identify the problem to be solved

8. Second Step
Research possible solutions to the problem

9. Brainstorm with other professionals on possible solutions
Third Step
Brainstorm with other professionals on possible solutions

10. Fourth Step
Choose the best solution, give a reason, consider the resources
Know the specifications or requirements
Consider constraints or limits

11. Fifth Step
Build a model or prototype (test model) Engineers must determine how good the product is and how it is part of a solution

12. Sixth Step
Test the solution in a similar environment that may be part of the problem
A car made for driving in snow would not test the same if tested in the desert.

13. Seventh Step
Communicate with other people your solution, the test results, and how it solved the problem

14. Eighth Step
Redesign if necessary, make changes as needed

15. Projects
We will apply the engineering design process to each of these NXT projects. NXT Projects