The Engineering Design Process
摘要
What separates engineers from scientists? It has been said that scientists study what is while engineers create what has never been ( https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/140931-scientists-discover-the-world-that-exists-engineers-create-the-world ). Creating what has never been requires a process and the engineering design process is the embodiment of this creative design process. The engineering design process was developed for usage in the late 1960s to improve the teaching of the engineering design process. As design courses were introduced into the first and final year’s undergraduate engineering curricula, a need to codify and formalize the teaching of design was needed. Recognizing that traditional engineering design is a messy process that does not translate well into teaching, a simplified more formal process was needed that could be taught to undergraduate engineering students in beginning engineering courses offered during the first year’s curriculum. In this chapter we propose a design process that merges our ideas of just technology with a traditional design process. The new design process inserts the four justice questions discussed the traditional design process.