Engineering Design Assignment - Designing a product that meets customer's requirements

Unit Learning Outcomes -

• Plan a design solution and prepare an engineering design specification in response to a stakeholder's design brief and requirements.
• Formulate possible technical solutions to address the student-prepared design specification specifications.
• Prepare an industry-standard engineering technical design report.
• Present to an audience a design solution based on the design report and evaluate the solution/presentation.

Assignment Brief and Guidance -

Scenario: The engineering design process is a methodical series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and processes. You are recently recruited in a leading company as a junior engineer to design products on demand according to their customers' requirements. Your manager has asked you to design a product to meet requirement of the client and produce a design report (You must set the client brief and your own design specification for the product). The report can be used by company's sales and marketing department as well as assessing health and safety issues relating to insurance cover.

Based on the selected client brief, you are required to carry out the following tasks:

Task 1 -

a. Produce a design specification from a given design brief.

b. Explain the influence of the stakeholder's design brief and requirements in the preparation of the design specification.

c. Produce a design project schedule with a graphical illustration of the planned activities.

d. Evaluate potential planning techniques, presenting a case for the method chosen.

e. Demonstrate critical path analysis techniques in design project scheduling/planning and explain its use.

f. Compare and contrast the completed design specification against the relevant industry standard specification.

Task 2 -

a. Explore industry's standard evaluation and analytical tools in formulating possible technical solutions.

b. Use appropriate design techniques to produce possible design solution.

c. Apply the principles of modelling/ simulation/prototyping, using appropriate software, to develop appropriate design solutions.

d. Evaluate potential technical solutions, presenting a case for the final choice of solution.

Task 3 -

a. Prepare an industry-standard engineering technical design.

b. Assess the presented technical design and identify any potential limitation it may have.

c. Explain the role of design specifications and standards in producing a finished product.

d. Identify any compliance, safety and risk management issues present in the chosen solution.

e. Evaluate the effectiveness of the presented industry standard engineering technical design report for producing a fully compliant finished product.

Task 4 -

a. Present the recommended design solution to the identified audience.

b. Explain possible communication strategies and presentation methods that could be used to inform the stakeholders of the recommended solution.

c. Reflect on effectiveness of communication strategy in presenting the solution.

d. Justify potential improvements to the presented design solution, based on reflection and/or feedback obtained from the presentation.