Introduction to Design Engineering : Systematic Creativity and Management

Designing engineering products requires a range of information, know-how, experience, and engineering analysis. This book presents methods for applying systematic and methodical conceptualization to abstract models of engineering systems. It incorporates new insights and surveys information about systematic, methodical, and intuitive design engineering and progressive product development. While of great interest to top-level managers and chief engineering designers, this book serves the needs of  engineering students by providing practical approaches in addition to helping the reader better understand the role of engineering in society.

Designing engineering products – technical systems and/or transformation processes – requires a range of information, know-how, experience, and engineering analysis, to find an optimal solution. Creativity and open-mindedness can be greatly assisted by systematic design engineering, which will ultimately lead to improved outcomes, documentation, and management.

This book applies systematic and methodical conceptualization to abstract models of engineering systems. These can be be used as needed for developing candidate solutions. The recommended engineering design process should be able to support all levels of creative design engineering based on Engineering Design Science. This book, incorporating several new insights, surveys information about systematic, methodical, and intuitive design engineering, thinking, and reasoning, as well as progressive product development. In addition to providing practical approaches it helps readers better understand the role of engineering in society.