Engineering Design, Planning, and Management

✍ Scribed by Hugh Jack

• Publisher: Academic Press
• Year: 2021
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 513
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Engineering Design, Planning and Management, Second Edition represents a compilation of essential resources, methods, materials and knowledge developed by the author and used over two decades. The book covers engineering design methodology through an interdisciplinary approach, with concise discussions and a visual format. It explores project management and creative design in the context of both established companies and entrepreneurial start-ups. Readers will discover the usefulness of the design process model through practical examples and applications from across engineering disciplines.

Sections explain useful design techniques, including concept mapping and weighted decision matrices that are supported with extensive graphics, flowcharts and accompanying interactive templates. Discussions are organized around 12 chapters dealing with topics such design concepts and embodiments, decision-making, finance, budgets, purchasing, bidding, communication, meetings and presentations, reliability and system design, manufacturing design and mechanical design.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Cover
Engineering Design, Planning, and Management
Engineering Design, Planning, and Management
Copyright
Contents
Preface
ANCILLARIES
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Engineering Design, Planning, and Management
1 - Design projects
1.1 Introduction
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1.2 Projects and design
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1.3 Needs identification and customer specifications
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1.4 Concept generation and technical specifications
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1.5 Detailed design
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1.6 Building and testing
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1.7 Project closure
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1.8 Project planning and management
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1.9 Project problems and disasters
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1.10 Businesses
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1.11 Decision-making
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Further reading
2 - Planning and managing projects
2.1 Introduction
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2.2 Chunking the project
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2.3 Task identification
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2.4 Work breakdown structure
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2.5 Resources and people
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2.6 Microsoft Project tutorial: setup and work breakdown structure
2.7 Schedule synthesis and analysis
2.7.1 Critical path method
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2.8 Program evaluation and review technique
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2.9 Plan review and documentation
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2.10 Project tracking and control
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2.11 Assessment
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Further reading
3 - Customer requirements and specifications
3.1 Introduction
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3.2 Needs
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3.3 Research
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3.4 Benchmarking and surveys
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3.5 Market-driven design
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3.6 Patents
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3.7 Customer specifications
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3.8 Quality functional deployment
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Further reading
4 - Concepts and technical specifications
4.1 Introduction
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4.2 Concepts
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4.3 Specifications to concepts
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4.4 Representing concepts
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4.5 Identifying concepts
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4.6 Concept generation
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4.7 Prototyping
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4.8 Brainstorming
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4.9 Morphological matrix methods
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4.10 Free thinking
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4.11 Deconstruction
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4.12 TRIZ
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4.13 Back-of-the-envelope calculations and functional prototypes
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4.14 Factor of safety
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4.15 Concept selection
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4.16 Decision matrices
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4.17 Embodiment design alternatives for a technical specification
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4.18 Intellectual property
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References
Further reading
5 - People and teams
5.1 Introduction
5.2 Individuals
5.2.1 Personal growth
5.2.2 Learning
5.2.3 Attention and focus
5.3 Organizations
5.3.1 Motivation
5.3.2 Politics
5.3.3 Loyalty and trust
5.3.4 Responsibility and authority
5.4 Managing individuals in organizations
5.4.1 Leadership habits
5.4.2 Delegation
5.4.3 Making inclusive decisions
5.4.4 Wellness and productivity
5.4.5 Conflicts and intervention
5.4.6 Hiring and promotion
5.5 Teams
5.5.1 Skills matrix
5.5.2 Profiling
5.5.3 Personality matching
5.5.4 Managing teams
5.6 Ethics
5.7 Professionalism
5.7.1 Time management
5.7.2 Being organized
5.7.3 Diversity
5.7.4 Entrepreneurship
5.7.5 A professional image
References
Further reading
6 - Decision-making
6.1 Introduction
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6.2 Critical thinking
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6.3 Critical analysis
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6.4 Selecting between alternatives
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6.5 Triage
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6.6 Project decisions
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6.7 Solving formal problems
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6.8 Risk
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6.9 Market
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6.10 Technical
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6.11 Procurement and purchasing
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6.12 Cost and schedule
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6.13 Staffing and management
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6.14 Organization
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6.15 External
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6.16 Risk analysis
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6.17 Design alternatives
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6.18 Risk reduction with design alternatives
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6.19 Business strategy
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6.20 Assessment and planning
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Further reading
7 - Finance, budgets, purchasing, and bidding
7.1 Introduction
7.2 Corporate finance
7.2.1 Accounting
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7.3 Value
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7.4 Design and product costs
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7.5 Project costs
7.5.1 Budgets and bills of material
7.5.2 Tracking budgets
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7.6 Return on investment
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7.7 Financial project justification
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7.8 Product life-cycle cost
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7.9 Business decisions
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7.10 Purchasing
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7.11 The supply chain for components and materials
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7.12 Bidding
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Further reading
8 - Reliability and system design
8.1 Introduction
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8.2 Human and equipment safety
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8.3 System reliability
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8.4 Component failure
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8.5 System reliability
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8.6 Passive and active redundancy
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8.7 Modeling system failures
8.7.1 Failure modes and effects analysis
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8.8 Complex fault modeling and control
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8.9 Designing reliable systems
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8.10 Verification and simulation
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Reference
Further reading
9 - Communication, meetings, and presentations
9.1 Introduction
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9.2 Speakers/writers and listeners/readers
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9.3 What are you saying?
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9.4 Critical listening and reading as the audience
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9.5 Interpersonal communication skills
9.5.1 Verbal communication
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9.6 Casual written communication
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9.7 Selling
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9.8 Praise and criticism
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9.9 Saying yes, maybe, or no
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9.10 Answering questions
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9.11 Meetings
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9.12 Purpose and procedures
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9.13 Customer and supplier meetings
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9.14 Presentations
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9.15 Presentation motivation
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9.16 Content
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9.17 Presentation appearance and effectiveness
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9.18 Presentation style
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9.19 Harmful and deadly presentations
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Further reading
10 - General design topics
10.1 Introduction
10.2 Human factors
10.2.1 User interaction
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10.2.2 Ergonomics
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10.2.3 Law
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10.2.4 Sustainability and environmental factors
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10.2.5 Engineering for our environment
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10.2.6 Design for X
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10.3 Quality
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10.4 Identification of problem causes and control variables
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10.4.1 Cause and effect diagrams
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10.4.2 Pareto analysis
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10.4.3 Experimentation
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10.4.4 Design of experiments
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10.5 Statistical process control
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10.5.1 Control chart calculations
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10.5.2 Parts inspection
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10.5.3 Six-sigma process capability
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10.6 Parametric design and optimization
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Further reading
A - Checklists
A.1 WORK BREAKDOWN STRUCTURE
Estimating
ESTIMATING
A.2 PROJECT DETAILS
A.3 DESIGN DETAILS
A.4 MEETING DETAILS
A.5 TRIZ CONTRADICTION CATEGORIES
A.6 TRIZ DESIGN PRINCIPLES
B - Technical writing
B.1 INTRODUCTION
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B.2 REPORT AND DOCUMENT TYPES
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B.2.1 Project documents
B.2.1 PROJECT DOCUMENTS
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B.2.2 Technical documents
B.2.2 TECHNICAL DOCUMENTS
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B.3 DOCUMENT FORMATTING
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B.4 TECHNICAL STYLE, GRAMMAR, AND SYNTAX
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B.5 WRITING PROCESS
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Reference
Further reading
C - Accreditation requirements mapping
C.1 UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
C.2 CANADA
C.3 AUSTRALIA
C.4 UNITED KINGDOM
Index
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