K/615/1475: Plan a design solution and prepare an engineering design specification in response to a stakeholder’s design brief and requirements: Engineering Design Assignment, UOG, UK

Learning Outcomes

LO1: Plan a design solution and prepare an engineering design specification in response to a stakeholder’s design brief and requirements

Scenario:

Your company has set up a new design department and you have been appointed as an engineering designer to work on a design project for the release of a new product.
Your manager requires that you as the designer, produce a professional report for his/her approval, with a view to achieving project funding from the board of directors.

Activity:

To develop your report, you will first assume the role of the company stakeholder or client and formulate a design brief for the product or design solution.

The design brief will be the main starting point for the design process and will describe in enough detail the essential elements of the product/design and its main functions that the design is intended to address.

You will then take on the role of engineering designer and develop the design brief into a design specification, you will need to compare your specification with typical published industrial specifications.

Finally, you will need to research project management techniques and develop a Gantt chart (indicating the critical path) for the design activities in assignment A2.

You may consider a completely new design or a rework of an existing one.
Task:

Your report will include:

a) An explanation of the key requirements of the design brief and how these have influenced the preparation of your design specification.

b) A detailed design specification to be used in the design of your product/solution. Your design specification should include a comparison to industry standard specifications such as BS 7373 or ACCESS FM.