8. Engineering Design Flashcards

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Tacit knowledge

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Skills, ideas and experiences that people have but which are not codified and are difficult to transfer to another person by verbalizing it

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Artefact

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Existing material object that has been assigned one or multiple functions

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Technical artefact

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An artefact which realizes its function in virtue of its physical properties

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Dual nature

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Technical artefacts are characterized both by their physical properties and by their intended functions

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Function

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The purpose that someone intends for an artefact

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Normative

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How things should be, regardless of how they are

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Ascribed function

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A function given to an existing object by a user who believes that this object has certain capacities that can fulfil a certain purpose

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Function assignment

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A function given to an object by a designer by creating or describing an object with certain capacities that can fulfil a certain purpose

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Functional kind

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A categorization of artefacts and their descriptions in terms of the functions they ought to satisfy

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Design

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A process that develops a physical description corresponding to a functional description

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Creation-centred

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A design process creates a physical object that robustly satisfies the functional description

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Client-oriented

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A design process creates a physical object that robustly satisfies the client’s needs

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Operational principle

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The underlying, basic concept of why a particular physical structure might deliver a certain functionality

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Satisficing

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A process where search and evaluation is combined, so that options that fulfil a certain threshold are chosen

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Design validation

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Testing aimed at ensuring that a product or system fulfils the specified functional requirements under specified operating conditions

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