The process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs.
- 4.2.1 Design
- Identify the pertinent technical, environmental, economic, regulatory, cultural and other project requirements and constraints.
- Gather information needed to fully understand the problem to be solved and form the basis for the evaluation of design alternatives.
- Contribute to the development of alternatives by analyzing the pros and cons of alternative design options, preparing those design options, and assisting in the selection of an optimized design alternative.
- Analyze the constructability or manufacturing feasibility of a project or product.
- Design a basic facility, structure, system, product, or process to meet well-defined requirements.
- Apply lessons learned from other design projects.
- Maintain knowledge of current types of systems, equipment, information technology, and specifications that accomplish specific design objectives.
- Consider human factors and ergonomics for employees creating products and for users of those products.
- Identify and use the appropriate strategies and processes to test design (e.g., rapid prototyping).
- Use engineering software appropriate to one's engineering discipline.
- Understand physical and cybersecurity and apply key concepts within the design of a project to ensure secure operations.
- 4.2.2 Technical Breadth and Depth
- Integrate concepts of a related science or technology into design of a project, project component, or product.
- Review research articles pertaining to a project component typically encountered in a specific area of engineering design.
- Choose topics most appropriate for continuing education to increase depth of technical knowledge pertinent to the specific area of engineering practice.
- Maintain knowledge of current types of systems, equipment, information technology, and specifications that accomplish specific design objectives.
- 4.2.3 Risk, Reliability and Uncertainty
- Describe the meaning, importance, and significance of risk, reliability, and uncertainty for the protection of public health, safety, welfare, and security in the design of a facility, structure, process, system or product.
- Determine the appropriate type and quantity of data required to identify ranges of existing and future conditions in defining a problem to be resolved through design.
- Identify and assess risk, reliability, and/or uncertainty in the design of an engineered component, system, or process including its impacts on the environment, economy, and society.
- Apply concepts of risk, reliability, and/or uncertainty as an integral part of engineering design and decision making.
- Calculate the probability or frequency of occurrence and resulting impact of risk in the design of an engineered component, system, or process.
- Explain to the public issues relating to risk, reliability, and/or uncertainty in the design of an engineered component, system, or process.
- Compare the pros and cons of alternative design options and assist in the selection of an optimized design alternative based on risk, reliability, and/or uncertainty analysis.
- 4.2.4 Experiments
- Apply knowledge of various experimental and prototyping methods.
- Design and conduct experiments to test a hypothesis, such as the potential effectiveness of a proposed solution to an engineering problem.
- Develop and recommend a plan of action based, in part on the experimental results.
- Understand and apply the difference between accuracy and precision.
- Understand and apply scale-ability or similitude.
- 4.2.5 Systems Engineering
- Identify and gather information needed to understand a multidimensional problem to be solved and to form the basis for the evaluation of alternatives and design.
- Contribute to the development of alternatives in complex projects.
- Analyze the pros and cons of alternative design options and assist in the selection of an optimized design alternative based on overall system characteristics and performance.
- Define, specify, and/or implement effective interfaces between system components and subsystems to meet system-level requirements.
Knowledge Areas- 4.2.6 Design
- Schematics and diagrams
- Operating parameters
- Operating and non-operating environmental stimuli
- External dimensions
- Materials requirements
- Reliability requirements
- External surface treatment
- Design life
- Packaging requirements
- External marking
- Computer-aided design programs
- "Design for X" (design within constraints)
- Intellectual property
- Design, control and integration of systems
- 4.2.7 Experiments
- Test requirements
- Maintenance and testability provisions
- Digital computer models
- Test protocol and procedures
- Uncertainty analysis
- Capabilities and limitations of test
- Safety precautions