Table of Contents
Outline
From Ideas to Manufacturable Products
Specification vs. Description
But Can We Really Specify or Even Describe Anything of Real Interest... ?
From Ideas to Manufacturable Products
"Pure-Science" Problems
"Engineering-Science" Problems
"Real Design" Problems
Classical Approaches to Design
Bottom-Up or Top-Down?
The Paradox of Engineering Technology
The Paradox of Engineering Technology
Conceptual Blocks from "Conceptual Blockbusting," James L. Adams
Perceptual Blocks
Emotional Blocks
Cultural and Environmental Blocks
A steel pipe is embedded in the concrete floor of a bare room, as shown below. The inside diameter is 0.06" larger than the diameter of the ping-pong ball (1.50") that is resting at the bottom of the pipe. You are one of a group of six people in the room, along with the following objects:
Cultural and Environmental Blocks
Intellectual & Expressive Blocks
Why do Developers go Astray? from "The Design of Everyday Things," Donald A. Norman
Deadly Temptations of Engineering Design
The Use and Power of Constraints
Wide and Deep Structures
Precise Behavior from Imprecise Knowledge
The Role of Abstraction in Design
What`s in a Name?
The Role of Language in Design
3-Bit Parity Function: "Control-Oriented"
3-Bit Parity Function: "Dataflow-Oriented"
3-bit Parity Function:Possible VHDL Implementation
VHDL: The "nroff/latex" of Design
D. A. Norman's Principles for Transforming Difficult Tasks into Simple Ones
Responsibilities of a Technologist
The CS150 Design Project
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