General Engineering Introduction/CDIO/design

The Design Process edit

Requirements for each element or component derived from system level goals and requirements edit
Alternatives in design edit
The initial design edit
Experiment prototypes and test articles in design development edit
Appropriate optimization in the presence of constraints edit
Iteration until convergence edit
The final design edit
Accommodation of changing requirements edit

The Design Process Phasing and Approaches edit

The activities in the phases of system design (e.g. conceptual, preliminary, and detailed design) edit
Process models appropriate for particular development projects (waterfall, spiral, concurrent, etc.) edit
The process for single, platform and derivative products edit

Utilization of Knowledge in Design edit

Technical and scientific knowledge edit
Creative and critical thinking, and problem solving edit
Prior work in the field, standardization and reuse of designs (including reverse engineer and redesign) edit
Design knowledge capture edit

Disciplinary Design edit

Appropriate techniques, tools, and processes edit
Design tool calibration and validation edit
Quantitative analysis of alternatives edit
Modeling, simulation and test edit
Analytical refinement of the design edit

Multidisciplinary Design edit

Interactions between disciplines edit
Dissimilar conventions and assumptions edit
Differences in the maturity of disciplinary models edit
Multidisciplinary design environments edit
Multidisciplinary design edit

Multi-Objective Design (DFX) edit

Performance, life cycle cost and value edit
Aesthetics and human factors edit
Implementation, verification, test and environmental sustainability edit
Operations edit
Maintainability, reliability, and safety edit
Robustness, evolution, product improvement and retirement edit