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technical analysis: Using science to determine how variables are related in order to draw conclusions in engineering-relevant context
- Licensing is not discipline-specific
engineering design:
- making decisions: on the basis of engineering principles
- create plans: for someone to create/modify something
- benefit of humans
terms.
- Decision variables:
- could change about the design
- Performance parameters
- describes how well the realised design works that is relevant to the end users
- can’t control performance parameters directly
optimum engineering design.
- use technical analysis to determine decision variables
- write NVF in terms of decision variables
- use optimisation methods to determine
- optimum set of decision variables
- corresponding value of NVF
- sensitive the optimum set and resulting NVF are to changes in decision variables and other parameters
validity and assumptions:
- push to one extreme