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 develoop
What is 3?
What is 10?
Disallowed vendor for senior design.
What is Alibaba?
And honestly anything more than a 1-2 ship time.
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 engineering requirements?
The number of steps in case study analysis for engineering ethics problems as presented in ECE 396
What is 4?
Expected meeting frequency with faculty project mentors during Spring 2022
What is every other week?
Category 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?
Type of IP that lasts the life of the author plus 70 years.
What is Copyright?
What is the MakerSpace?
Process of returning to previous design steps to improve design.
What is iteration?
A calculation to assess ratings for criteria across team members that reduces bias.
What is the geometric mean?
Name 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 SELE?
Name of final testing step in the V testing procedure presented for the senior design process (in this class).
What is Acceptance Testing?
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?
Name of spring event held by the College of Engineering to demonstrate all engineering capstone projects.
What is the EXPO?