Design Process
Procedure to create and test a mock up of your design before finalizing it.
What is prototyping?
It's a strategy to consider all possible ideas for a particular problem. Often used in marketing.
What is brainstorming?
Number of design alternative solutions ECE senior design students are expected to develop
What is 3?
What is 10?
What software do you use for peer evaluation and self assessment?
What is CATME
Design "language" (component) used to communicate between the design engineers and the user that describes the user needs.
What are Marketing Requirements?
It is used to visualize the user needs as weighted objectives of the project
What is the Objective Tree?
These must be abstract, verifiable, unambiguous, and traceable.
What are the properties of engineering requirements?
The number of steps in case study analysis for engineering ethics problems as presented in ECE 396
What is 4? Gather Data, Identify Stakeholders, Determine All Courses of Actions, Choose most ethical course of action using the IEEE Code of Ethics. (5 is accepted)
Expected meeting frequency with faculty project mentors during Spring 2026
What is every other week?
Type of engineering requirement that states how well a system will work.
What is performance engineering requirement?
This tool is used to determine all possible design choices for each function of the system
What is a Concept Map or Concept Fan?
Type of data collected directly from the user for the purpose of design and needs assessment.
What is primary data?
The document employees sign to ensure they do not disclose proprietary information.
What is Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)?
Name of space available for free to all COE students to manufacture, build, and test designs
What is the MakerSpace?
Process of returning to previous design steps to improve design.
What is iteration?
A tool that reduces bias and is used to rate alternatives relative to criteria across team members to decided on best design alternatives
What is the AHP or a decision matrix?
Level for a system where the only available signals are inputs and outputs.
What is blackbox? What is Level 0?
Ethical system where decisions are made such that they produce the highest good for all people involved.
What is the Utilitarian Ethical System?
Building where the ECE Senior Design Lab is located.
What is SEL?
Mathematical calculation done when deciding on the best design alternative to reduce bias, better than the average.
What is the Geometric Mean?
This tool is used to determine how much progress a team has made on a particular task for a subsystem or system component in the design process.
What is a Gantt chart?
The IEEE standard number depicting a diagram with an overview of the engineering design process.
What is IEEE 1233?
Rule that states that you should treat others how THEY want to be treated.
What is the golden rule? What is the platinum rule?
Name of spring event held by the College of Engineering to demonstrate all engineering capstone projects.
What is the EXPO?