Designing for Customers: Customer Needs OverviewEngineers design for customers. To focus students on the importance of designing for customers, this exploration requires students to undertake a structured process to gather and analyze input from prospective customers to inform ideas for product redesign. In fact, students are completing the first steps of the “reverse engineering” process that they will complete in Unit 6: Reverse Engineering (Product Redesign). For this reason, it is essential that students follow good documentation procedures in this unit.
This unit also requires that students, as a first step in the course-long exploration of engineering fields and professions, research an engineering discipline for which “universal design” is a consideration. Defined as “the design of products and environments to be usable by all people, to the greatest extent possible, without the need for adaptation or specialized design" (http://www.ncsu.edu/ncsu/design/cud/about_ud/udprinciplestext.htm (Links to an external site.)), universal design will be reinforced in Unit 3: Discovering Design (Pinhole Camera). |
Student Learning Objectives
Learning Objectives
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Students will demonstrate understanding of the meaning, significance and challenges of universal design by:
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