Component-Function Templates to Aid Engineering Design Education

Abstract

A new design instrument, component functional templates, has been developed to assist design engineering education. The templates attempt to link the functional basis and component taxonomy into one coherent visual form that can be used by novice designers as afunctional modeling training tool This paper presents the approach, derivation, and valid examples of template groupings that result from the analysis. Principal components analysis is used to extract historical data from consumer products whose information has been stored in an online repository. An application of the templates is presented where they prove to be sufficient to begin the modeling process that accurately describes the subsystem's functions.

Department(s)

Engineering Management and Systems Engineering

Keywords and Phrases

Conceptual design; Design education tools; Product modeling

International Standard Serial Number (ISSN)

0949-149X

Document Type

Article - Journal

Document Version

Citation

File Type

text

Language(s)

English

Rights

© 2010 TEMPUS Publications, All rights reserved.

Publication Date

01 Jan 2010

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