The following morphologies are a few of the many
that describe the engineering design process.

"The Engineering Design Process"

1. Identification of the problem
2. Collection of information
3. Generation of ideas
4. Preparation of a model
5. Analysis and evaluation
6. Experimentation
7. Presentation of a solution

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"The Engineering Approach to Problem Solving"

First Step: Describe the problem
Second Step: Identify the laws of science that apply to the problem
Third Step: Identify the pertinent known and unknown facts
Fourth Step:Manipulate the numbers
Fifth Step:Evaluate the results

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"The Steps of Engineering Problem Solving"

Step 1: Problem definition, data collection, and model development
Step 2: Solution synthesis
Step 3: Solution verification and evaluation
Step 4: Presentation of results

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"The Five Phases of the Design Process"

1. Problem definition
2. Invention
3. Analysis
4. Decision
5. Implementation

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"The Engineering Design Process"

Step 1: problem identification
Step 2: gathering of information and data
Step 3: preliminary solution ideas
Step 4: modeling and analysis
Step 5: testing
Step 6: decision
Step 7: specification
Step 8 implementation


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