Design managers and team members will find the revised and expanded second edition of "Managing Engineering Design" to be a practical book providing a framework of precepts for the management of engineering design projects. Features include: jargon-free language with well-tried, real-world examples; useful tips for managers at the end of each chapter; a comprehensive bibliography at the end of the book. It is also highly informative for graduate and undergraduate engineering students and ideally suited for establishing a web-based design management system for geographically dispersed teams.
"This remarkable book, based on sound empirical research and design project experience, will be an enormous help to design managers and design engineers..." Professor Ken Wallace, University of Cambridge
"The practical approach of Hales and Gooch particularly appealed to me... pull[s] together a concise package of best practice in engineering management and successfully tie together the different activities...no minor feat and I lift my hat to them."
Doctor Roope Takala, Program Manager, Nokia Group

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Features include: jargon-free language with well-tried, real-world examples; useful tips for managers at the end of each chapter; a comprehensive bibliography at the end of the book.

It is also highly informative for graduate and undergraduate engineering students and ideally suited for establishing a web-based design management system for geographically dispersed teams.

Changes in the second edition: New case studies. Expanded text in each chapter (about 50 new pages worth) including a wholly new chapter on the analysis of the design process as a whole.

Inhalt

0.- 0.1 Terminology.- 0.2 Examples.- 1 The Context.- 1 Ways of Thinking about Engineering Design.- 1.1 Disasters and Failures.- 1.2 Engineering Excellence.- 1.3 New Innovations.- 1.4 Improving Engineering Design.- 1.5 Systematic Approaches to Engineering Design.- 1.6 Systematic Design in Practice.- 1.7 Tips for Management.- 2 The Project Context.- 2.1 Engineering Projects.- 2.2 Engineering Design in the Project Context.- 2.3 The Effect of Influences.- 2.4 Influences at the Macroeconomic Level.- 2.5 Influences at the Microeconomic Level.- 2.6 Influences at the Corporate Level.- 2.7 Design Context Checklist and Work Sheet.- 2.8 Tips for Management.- 2 Task,Team and Tools.- 3 Profiling the Project.- 3.1 Influences at the Project Level.- 3.2 Engineering Design in the Project Context.- 3.3 Design Task.- 3.4 Design Team.- 3.5 Design Tools and Techniques.- 3.6 Design Team Output.- 3.7 Project Profile Checklist and Work Sheet.- 3.8 Tips for Management.- 4 Managing the Design Team.- 4.1 Influences at the Personal Level.- 4.2 Knowledge, Skills, and Attitude.- 4.3 Motivation.- 4.4 Relationships.- 4.5 Personal Output.- 4.6 Personnel Profile Checklist and Work Sheet.- 4.7 Tips for Management.- 3 The Project.- 5 Project Proposal: Getting the Job.- 5.1 Proposals and Briefs.- 5.2 Preparing a Proposal.- 5.3 Negotiations.- 5.4 Debriefing.- 5.5 Project Proposal Checklist and Work Sheet.- 5.6 Tips for Management.- 6 Design Specification: Clarification of the Task.- 6.1 Problem Statement and Design Specification.- 6.2 Defining the Problem.- 6.3 Project Planning.- 6.4 Demands and Wishes.- 6.5 Design Specification.- 6.6 Design Specification Checklist and Work Sheet.- 6.7 Tips for Management.- 7 Feasible Concept: Conceptual Design.- 7.1 Divergent and Convergent Thinking.- 7.2 Generating Ideas.- 7.3 Selecting and Evaluating Concepts.- 7.4 Estimating Costs.- 7.5 Presenting the Final Concept.- 7.6 Conceptual Design Checklist and Work Sheet.- 7.7 Tips for Management.- 8 Developed Concept: Embodiment Design.- 8.1 Abstract Concept to Developed Design.- 8.2 Overall Guidelines for Embodiment Design.- 8.3 Specific Guidelines for Embodiment Design.- 8.4 General Guidelines for Embodiment Design.- 8.5 Embodiment Design Checklist and Work Sheet.- 8.6 Tips for Management.- 9 Final Design: Detail Design for Manufacture.- 9.1 The Importance of Detail Design.- 9.2 The Design Manager and Detail Design.- 9.3 Quality Assurance.- 9.4 Interaction of Shape, Materials, and Manufacture.- 9.5 Manufacturing Drawings and Information.- 9.6 Standard Components.- 9.7 Assembly.- 9.8 Testing and Commissioning.- 9.9 Detail Design Checklist and Work Sheet.- 9.10 Tips for Management.- 10 Users and Customers: Design Feedback.- 10.1 Expectations.- 10.2 Use and Abuse.- 10.3 Maintenance.- 10.4 Litigation.- 10.5 Design Quality Assessment Work Sheet.- 10.6 Tips for Management.- 11 Standards and Codes.- 11.1 General Issues.- 11.2 Basic Definitions.- 11.3 Safety Standards.- 11.4 Some Reference Articles on Safety Standards.- 11.5 Some Reference Articles on International Standards.- 11.6 ISO0 International Standards for Quality Management.- 11.7 National Standards for Engineering Design Management.- 11.8 Tips for Management.- 11.9 Contact Information and URLs for Standards and Codes.- 12 Engineering Design Process: Review and Analysis.- 12.1 Summary.- 12.2 Forensic Analysis of Engineering Design Issues.- 12.3 Analysis of the Engineering Design Process.- 241.- 243.- 247.