Engineering Capstone Design (eBook)

Project Planning, Organizing, and Executing

Alexei Morozov, Rosaire Mongrain, Mark Driscoll, Peter Radziszewski, Benoit Boulet (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2025
457 Seiten
Wiley (Verlag)
978-1-394-29215-8 (ISBN)

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A concise and practical guide to succeeding in the undergraduate engineering capstone design project

In Engineering Capstone Design Project: Planning, Organizing, and Executing, a team of accomplished engineers delivers a practical guide for engineering students undertaking their capstone design project course in the final year of their bachelor program. It covers two aspects of the capstone course: planning and the design process. You'll explore how to organize your team, manage and develop your project, and communicate with clients, advisors, suppliers, and manufacturers. You'll also discover a detailed, step-by-step approach to the design process following the milestones and requirements of engineering capstone design courses.

The book focuses on the process of mechanical engineering design but also includes material covering electrical, chemical, biomedical, and control systems engineering design. It also offers several illustrative case studies of successful capstone design projects completed at McGill University.

Readers will also find:

• A thorough introduction to the principles of organization of capstone design courses, including learning attributes and grade attribution
• Comprehensive step-by-step instructions to the design process
• Useful case studies from academic, industrial, and McGill student design competition capstone projects
• Examples and anecdotes drawn from the authorial team's extensive professional and academic experience in engineering design and project advice

Perfect for undergraduate students taking the capstone mechanical engineering project course, Engineering Capstone Design Project: Planning, Organizing, and Executing will also benefit students of other engineering design courses seeking a clear, step-by-step approach to the design process.

Alexei Morozov, P.Eng., Ph.D., is an Academic Associate in the Faculty of Engineering at McGill University. He's a Design Engineer at the NSERC Chair in Design Engineering for Interdisciplinary Innovation of Medical Technologies in the Department of Mechanical Engineering. He has 40 years of experience working in R&D and advising in various innovative robotic, mechanical, and interdisciplinary engineering projects, and more than 20 years in teaching Design Graphics, Conceptual Design, Inter-Disciplinary Design, Capstone Design, and Hybrid and Electric Vehicles Drivetrain Design courses.

Rosaire Mongrain, P.Eng., Ph.D., is a full Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, Canadian NSERC chair in Design Engineering. His principal research aims at the design, development, and evaluation of medical devices using numerical and experimental methods. He has taught design courses including Conceptual Design, Machine Elements Design, Inter-Disciplinary Design, and the Capstone Course for more than 25 years.

Mark Driscoll, P.Eng., Ph.D., is a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at McGill University, Canadian NSERC chair in Design Engineering, and Chwang-Seto Faculty Scholar. He is an experienced engineer, expert in spine biomechanics, with in-depth background in innovation and product development. He has successfully taken several novel medical devices to market in industrial and academic settings and shares this knowledge as a design curriculum professor.

Peter Radziszewski, P.Eng., Ph.D., former Associate Professor in engineering design at McGill University, pursued R&D and teaching activities in design and mineral processing. Joining Metso in 2012 as VP Solutions Offering Development, his conceptual design efforts encompassed mineral process equipment, wear, and consumables. 2021 saw him join Rampart Detection Systems as VP of Research & Innovation, where he worked on electric and magnetic field sensor applications in the mining industry.

Benoit Boulet, P.Eng., Ph.D., FCAE, is a full Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at McGill University, the Chwang-Seto Engine Faculty Scholar, and co-founding Director of the McGill Engine technological innovation centre. He currently serves as McGill's Associate Vice-President (Innovation and Partnerships). Professor Boulet is a former director and current member of McGill's Centre for Intelligent Machines where he heads the Intelligent Automation Laboratory.

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Engineering Design: Definitions and Methods

The history of engineering dates to numbers of thousands of years; just think of the master builders of the Potamic civilizations (India, Mesopotamia, Egypt, China), ancient Egyptian pyramids, or aqueducts of the Roman Empire (Figure 1.1). While engineering applies scientific principles to the design, analysis, construction, and operation of objects, engineering design creates specific plans for constructing objects, systems, or structures and is an essential part of the general engineering field.

Engineering Design, as defined by Engineers Canada (2019), is “the process of making informed, thoughtful, and creative decisions in devising a product, system, component, or process to meet specified needs. It is an open‐ended and generative activity, often iterative and multi‐disciplinary in which natural science, mathematics, and engineering science are incorporated into solutions that satisfy defined objectives within identified requirements and constraints. Typically, the constraints include economic, health and safety, environmental, societal, cultural, and regulatory aspects.”

In short, engineering design can be also defined as a broad class of (a) development processes that apply to the creation of various engineered structures, systems, infrastructures, technologies, and machines; (b) products that are the subjects of such processes.

Although it is evident that the first engineers appeared thousands of years ago with the first engineering projects, the profession of design engineers emerged as a separate discipline only with the development of mass production in the early 20th century. In our days, many people connect the profession of design engineering with widespread use of computers and computer‐aided design software. However, well before this, design engineers already played an important role in the industry developing various products for the market. Their main tools were a pencil and a drafting board. As an example, a photo of a professional design engineer, Vitaliy Morozov, father of one of the co‐authors of this book, is presented in Figure 1.2.

Types of Engineering Design

Engineering design is the method of identifying and solving engineering problems. Engineering design can have different forms, but they all include a common attribute: any type of engineering design is a process. The main types of engineering design are

Figure 1.1 Pont du Gard, Roman Aqueduct, Nîmes, France, photo of 2005.

Source: Alexei Morozov.

Figure 1.2 Design engineer, Russian Research Instrumental Institute, Moscow, 1963.

Source: Alexei Morozov.

• Original design. Sometimes called innovative design. This design produces a novel and original concept targeting a specific customer need. An original design requires a unique solution based on an invention, and it often involves the introduction of new technologies that potentially have long‐term consequences.
• Adaptive design. This approach is to adapt existing engineering solutions for a different application or uncommon need. For example, adapting the wired phone receiver and making it wireless for use in a wireless telephone set. Further adaptive design converts the wireless phone receiver (and the phone itself) into a fully mobile version, the cell phone. Adaptive design is quite common in engineering design.
• Redesign. An engineering design that targets the improvement of an existing design. Redesign can be used to expand a product’s servicing capabilities and functionality or reduce its manufacturing cost. A redesign can also be accomplished by changing product’s properties, while keeping its functionality and cost (sometimes even increasing the latter), for example, reshaping a product to reduce its stress concentration.
• Selection design. Most designs use off‐the‐shelf components such as gears, bearings, joints, motors, actuators, etc., that their manufacturers or distributors supply. Here, the design task is to choose parts or components with the required specifications, characteristics, capabilities, and costs from a supplier. Selection design is an essential part of most design projects.
• Product design and Industrial design.

The last two types of design are sometimes mutually mixed up. This happens because different people, especially in different professions, interpret them in different ways.

In general, product design is the design of a product with the primary goal of selling it to consumers. Industrial design is also about designing a product for end users; however, the attention is given first to its functional value, e.g., cars, houses, home appliances, specialized equipment, etc. In industrial design, an end user is not necessarily a common customer in a public market since the design goals may target improving technology or building more efficient equipment for the manufacturer. In this case, the designed product can also go to the market, but will be intended for its smaller and more specialized segment. Moreover, industrial design pays more attention to the interfacing of the human user with the product.

Therefore, for the general public, industrial design often applies only to industrial products, while fashion designers or software developers use the term “product design” to present their concepts.

Engineering Design Process

The engineering design process is a series of steps that engineers undertake to elaborate a solution to a problem. This type of solution involves designing a technical product that addresses certain requirements or possesses certain functionality. In other words, the engineering design process is used in a situation that involves designing, building, and testing an object.

Engineering design is a core activity of every engineering project and is heavily dependent on thinking processes. Many attempts have been made to formalize engineering design as a science; however, the engineering design theory is still a work in progress, given that it is closely linked to such a subjective category as creativity. Moreover, as opposed to the “classical” sciences, e.g., physics or astronomy where it is possible to develop a theory of a process followed by its experimental verification, the “design science” stems from the practical applications and describes already existing processes and procedures.

Thus, the design process is planning to create something for a specific need, task, or function, which involves creative and/or inventive thinking and execution in an artistic or highly skilled manner. In engineering, design is an essential part of the engineering process including such applications as mechanical design, electrical design, product design, industrial design, civil/architectural design, etc. All these applications of design have their own peculiarities, but also have common features and follow universal general principles and design approaches.

Product Design

Product design is the general process of creation of new products and services. It is part of product development that includes the entire marketing process from market research to launch. Product design is focused on customer needs and customer–product interaction, combining aesthetics, functionality, interaction design, engineering, and integration. It includes various design phases such as mechanical/electrical and industrial designs, while building a connection between the product creation and its use by the customer.

Mechanical Design

Mechanical engineering design is an engineering procedure aimed at designing parts, components, products, or systems of a mechanical nature, while applying engineering physics and mathematics principles with materials science. During the design process, a designer addresses the questions of how these components are going to work in collaboration and what is the reliability of the system when different components work together, where system reliability, maintenance, system modeling, parameters of components are analyzed to decide about the system integrally. For example, the design of different machine components (shafts, brakes, valves, gearboxes, brackets, etc.) applies to mechanical design.

In many cases, mechanical design is the process of building a prototype and is a prerequisite (or first phase) of industrial design.

Electrical Design

Electrical design deals with creating, testing, and implementing various electrical equipment, e.g., electrical units, electric diagrams, power equipment and systems, lighting appliances, electronic components, data acquisition, network, telecommunications infrastructure, etc. Electrical design software is an essential tool for electrical and control systems engineers and designers.

Electrical design can also be a prerequisite/first phase of industrial design.

Industrial Design

Industrial design is the practice of designing products for mass production. It refers to the look, feel, and human interaction with a product by studying function, form, and connection between product, user, and environment. For the wide public, it is often interchangeable with product design; however, industrial design is more focused toward the earlier stages of the product design process. A commonly cited principle...

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 31.7.2025
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Maschinenbau
• Schlagworte: bioengineering capstone • bio-medical engineering capstone • chemical engineering capstone • electrical engineering capstone • Engineering Capstone Course • engineering capstone learning attributes • mechanical engineering capstone
• ISBN-10: 1-394-29215-5 / 1394292155
• ISBN-13: 978-1-394-29215-8 / 9781394292158