Chapter 1 Introduction to Engineering Design
1.1 Chapter Overview
1.2 Design and Its History
1.2.1 The design concept
1.2.2 A brief history of design
1.2.3 The design principles
1.3 Engineering Design
1.4 Product Life Cycle
1.5 Engineering Design Process: An Example
1.5.1 Market survey and QFD
1.5.2 Conceptual design
1.5.3 Detailed design
1.5.4 Prototyping
1.5.5 Conclusion
1.6 Summary
1.7 Exercises
1.8 References
Chapter 2 The Design Team
2.1 Chapter Overview
2.2 The Designer
2.3 The Design Team
2.4 The Design Report
2.5 Oral Presentation
2.6 Summary
2.7 Exercises
2.8 References
Chapter 3 Problem Specification
3.1 Chapter Overview
3.2 Customer Requirements
3.3 Market Survey
3.4 Patent Survey
3.5 Quality Function Deployment
3.5.1 Quality function deployment
3.5.2 Establishing the house of quality
3.5.3 The four phases of the house of quality
3.6 Summary
3.7 Exercises
3.8 References
Chapter 4 Concept Generation and Evaluation
4.1 Chapter Overview
4.2 Brainstorming, Innovation and Ideation
4.2.1 Brainstorming
4.2.2 Innovation and ideation
4.2.3 Investigation and research
4.3 Sketches
4.4 Concept Evaluation
4.5 Summary
4.6 Exercises
4.7 References
Chapter 5 Detailed Design
