Design of Design 19-20
231-Great designs come from great designers not from great processes, quotes from Paulk and Jobs
232-Discussion of which way is the best to create a revolutionary design.
233-He discusses why it is hard to come up with a truly great and innovative design in the corporate design process
234-Further continuation of how the corporate product process is a bad way to design for innovative designs, also using a personal experience of IBM system 360
235- Gives some exceptions to the corporate product process that have been successful , and discuss further the product process and the four effects following a truly innovative design
236- Discussion of follow-on products is continued and how the product process doesn't allow designers to get better.
237- Answer given to the question isn't process needed even for innovative design, and how to balance process to where you get the best of both worlds.
238- Further explanation of how to use process as a benefit by having a good leader to put their people in the correct position and to set up the right environment for good design.
239-Further continuation of how to bring out the best in designers, and to intrust your chief designer with your design
240-notes and references
241-blank
242- John Cocke
243-chp 20-Where do great designers come from? quotes from Fuller and Gibbon
244- The reality of great designs now don't come from one single designer so we say the central people the designs revolve around and talks about how engineers should be taught by critiqued practice.
245-Brooks agrees with the idea that engineers should be able to have critiqued practice and explains why compared to formal education.
246- Discusses recruiting brilliant designer and how to create brilliant designers
247-Discussion of the dual ladder creating designers instead of managers, keeping designers up to date.
248- Education of designers continually is further discussed, he gives an IBM example, and explains how to bring up the young designers to be great.
249-Further talk of education throughout the career, then discussion of John Cocke story.
250-Further talk of Cocke and Gomory, and how to protect great designers from distraction meetings, calls, emails etc..
251- Talk of how to get rid of distractions such as quiet mornings to enhance flow, and protecting the great designer from mediocre or insecure managers.
252-Also, need to protect the designers from having to manage, and how to grow yourself as a designer.
253- Further how to grow yourself for great design by studying exemplars, doing sketches and studying others.
254- Self education project to design floor plan of 1000 ft house, the program, and journal.
255-notes and references
256-notes and references
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
Design of Design
Chapter 17-18
Chapter 17-18
203- Chapter 17 - A Computer Scientist’s Dream for Designing Houses-Mind to Machine.
204- Brooks suggests a computer interface for designing houses and buildings.
205- Designs start off with ideas not from scratch completely. ie top down design
206- Suggests there should be exemplars the user can start from to use the truthfulness mode method.
207-This method may affect the creativity how do you put thoughts into computer system. Design can be thought of a noun and verb a rhythm.
208- diagram of the structure of an imperative sentence; nouns:clicks::verbs:double clicks verb command.
209- Ideally we would like voice commands. Compares the verbs in the cad program.
210- Objects should be specified by names which can be confusing if you have multiple one with same name. One object can have different names, and it can be pointed to.
211- To draw a 3D drawing,start off with a 2D drawing, 3D can be complicated but you can imitate it with 2D
212-Text is used for specifications adverbs commands and verbs can be implemented trying to find a amount
213- Specifying the interior of a house is important. The views can change depending eye height and other factors for 3D design. Walkthrough simulation
214- Allowing the user to walk through 3D in 2D views . All six views need to be seen.
215- tooth pick viewpointer, a joystick can help view the exterior of the house being designed.
216- Toothpick is discussed further also a rocking pendulum can give depth perception.
217- notes and references.
218- A picture of a design workstation
219- Chapter 18 - A Computer Scientist’s Dream System for Designing Houses—Machine to Mind.
220- Concurrent windows, explaining need for 2 way channel for mind to machine. The d view should have an angle, work surface size, resolution, and viewing distance.
221- The display should be spatial. It should be able to zoom in and out and create or manipulate some local portion explaining 2D context view
222- Virtual environment should be used for the 3D viewing and shows its functionality. Possibly and view pointers and discusses exterior views
223- Explains the workbook view has a picture of cutaway apt
224- There should be specifications for drawings that are stylistic.
225- Audio displays can be used to add depth, and help in design windows and doors.
226- Discussion of the dream system, the can question and how to implement it.
227- notes and references.
RESUMES
I like Mr. Zawacki because he is experienced, has a grad level education and finished in the top of his class in undergrad he seems well rounded also.
Ms, Corwin appears to be a PE, which is one reason I would like to hire her also I like her work experience with NASA and etc..
http://www.jfred.org/resume.html
I would be willing to hire Jason because he has a phd I know he is willing to work hard and he hast a couple patents, I would not have to worry about him finishing whatever I may give him to accomplish as long as it is reasonable.
http://www.jfred.org/resume.html
I would be willing to hire Jason because he has a phd I know he is willing to work hard and he hast a couple patents, I would not have to worry about him finishing whatever I may give him to accomplish as long as it is reasonable.
Tuesday, March 27, 2012
Wednesday March 28
An attempt to list all the wrong ways to use our device
1.Trying to tinker with the circuit in any attempt, may damage the device or cause bodily harm
2.Could have interference and cause not to function properly
3. Do not attempt to use without proper training.
4. NEVER try to implant the secondary side on your own.
5. May cause problems while flying.
6. Make sure you are within the suggested range for best results when powering.
7. In Much the same way cell phones may cause cancer, this device may also.
8. Do not attempt to charge batteries they may explode.
Warnings or Harmful images
Biohazard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard
Although the information found on this system has been produced and processed from sources believed to be reliable, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding accuracy, adequacy, completeness, legality, reliability or usefulness of any information. This disclaimer applies to both isolated and aggregate uses of information.
I tried to find specific disclaimers for certain things such as causing one harm, or a product not functioning properly, or reading inaccurate data, and failed. However, I realized most sites don't do a specific disclaimer for one scenario they clear their name mainly in one big disclaimer containing a wide variety of things such as harm, inaccuracies, warranties and such. I am sorry, I do not have more I hope the two above suffice.
CREATION of warnings and Disclaimers
Warning: Tampering with this device by taking apart or using it for any other method described in the guidebook could cause harm to oneself or others.
Warning:Using this device in any other way then described could cause the device to malfunction and/or permanently break.
Disclaimer of Liability: The makers of this product are in no way liable for any misuse,repair, or maintenance of the product in any way, shape or form. Also, the makers of this product are not liable for any harm, inaccuracies, or failures that may come from using this product.
1.Trying to tinker with the circuit in any attempt, may damage the device or cause bodily harm
2.Could have interference and cause not to function properly
3. Do not attempt to use without proper training.
4. NEVER try to implant the secondary side on your own.
5. May cause problems while flying.
6. Make sure you are within the suggested range for best results when powering.
7. In Much the same way cell phones may cause cancer, this device may also.
8. Do not attempt to charge batteries they may explode.
Warnings or Harmful images
Biohazard
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biological_hazard
Electrocution
Flammable
Danger High-Voltage
Poison
Only poisonous if implanted and something starts infection or gets in your blood ,and as for the high voltage sign ,not really high voltage but I wanted to add more signs. Example the biohazard but only the obvious ones apply.
Disclaimers
Exclusion of Liability
Eagleford Energy, Inc. shall not be liable for any claims, expenses, damages (including direct, indirect, special or consequential damages), and loss of profits, opportunities or information arising from:
- the use of or reliance on information contained in this website;
- any inaccuracy or omission in such information or failure to keep the information current;
- use of any third party websites linked to this website;
- any Internet software used in connection with this website or computer viruses or other destructive programs encountered as a result of using this website; and
- any other matter connected with this website; even if Eagleford Energy, Inc. is made aware of the possibility of such claims, expenses, damages or losses.
Ok so its really hard to find disclaimers but the idea behind this could be applied that we are not liable for damage it may cause that we are unaware of.
A portion from a
Disclaimer of inaccuracies
Although the information found on this system has been produced and processed from sources believed to be reliable, no warranty, expressed or implied, is made regarding accuracy, adequacy, completeness, legality, reliability or usefulness of any information. This disclaimer applies to both isolated and aggregate uses of information.
I tried to find specific disclaimers for certain things such as causing one harm, or a product not functioning properly, or reading inaccurate data, and failed. However, I realized most sites don't do a specific disclaimer for one scenario they clear their name mainly in one big disclaimer containing a wide variety of things such as harm, inaccuracies, warranties and such. I am sorry, I do not have more I hope the two above suffice.
CREATION of warnings and Disclaimers
Warning: Tampering with this device by taking apart or using it for any other method described in the guidebook could cause harm to oneself or others.
Warning:Using this device in any other way then described could cause the device to malfunction and/or permanently break.
Disclaimer of Liability: The makers of this product are in no way liable for any misuse,repair, or maintenance of the product in any way, shape or form. Also, the makers of this product are not liable for any harm, inaccuracies, or failures that may come from using this product.
Tuesday, March 6, 2012
March 6
YOUTUBE-Designing light bulbs to fail sooner
Starts off with customer trying to fix a printer but it will cost triple instead of just buying a new one. Planned obsolescence is where products are designed to fail at a certain point so you have to buy more.
Shows the light bulb was in Livermore fire department has been burning since 1901, and when they discovered started paying attention to it. Through it a birthday party for the light bulb with 900 people. Begins where the bulb came from the ladies putting it together Adolf invented his filament to last long. Begins a discussion of the lightbulb conspiracy and what companies were in on it and how they divided up the areas to sell and how many hours the light bulbs were allowed to last. How patents for for light bulbs to last longer were not allowed. How members of cartel were fined if they lasted too long.
The idea of this cartel is still present. Now they are relating this back to the ink jet printer, and how it uses ink to clean the heads then once the sponge gets full it decides to quit working and is designed to fail. Goes through the idea of how all this began with individuals making something newer and newer all the time. London says we should have planned obsolescence where there would always be a market for new good thus always job. However, his idea was ignored. Now in 1950's marketing created planned obsolescence Stephens said the consumer would push for something new although it wasn't needed. Approach was to make a American unhappy with the older product. Students are taught to design for business for frequent purchases. Chemists invents ever lasting thread how everyone gets upset workers for fear of job.How designer would set a life span Dupont made nylon stockings that lasted too long. They tried to make them where they would fail sooner. How the engineers felt about making a inferior product. While ink jet printers are designed to fail at a certain point using a chip. How planned obsolescence didn't occur in Germany in Communists economy how the fridges lasted 25 years. 1981 German company created a life long light bulb, and took it to a fair to see if westerners would buy it.
Consumers start to fight back with the internet and how the first movie is about Apple got sued for having the battery in the ipod only last 18 months, and tried to make people buy new ipods. How the scraps all go to third world countries and pollute and it is terrible and causing trash. The russian website to fight ink jet printers is also available to fight back against planned obsolescence. Phillips 25 year LED is discussed. Nature is also discussed as to how it produces abundantly but also uses the waste to be efficient.
The current situation is terrible, I think planned obsolescence is bad but I see how it can produce economic growth. I think it is terrible that too much goes to waste. We live on a finite planet and we will run out of resources and places to put trash. However, planned obsolescence with people wanting to buy newer and newer stuff isn't bad, they need self-control, but if they are planned to die 18 months later I think that is wrong.
US first patent press release: #:X0000001
http://patimg1.uspto.gov/.piw?Docid=X0000001&idkey=NONE
Had to go to http://patft.uspto.gov/netahtml/PTO/srchnum.htm search for X1and view image. One page long, Samuel Hopkins of Philadelphia quote "discovered an Improvement, not known or used before, such Discovery, in the making of Pot ash and Pearl ash by a new Apparatus and Procefs"
Patent Application
Tiny size wireless power transfer
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1_Q2XBn22IaxPjILyBef-MB2CGJMC7p_Px7Z17XbD-Lw/edit
Monday, March 5, 2012
3/5/2012
The Design of Design
184-Part of compendium chart Brooks used for house wing design
185-Representing Designs' Trajectories and Rationales quote from Wilkes
186-Introduction is about how he and his friend took his log from designing his new wing and documenting it.
187- Tells how to linearize knowledge and how it isn't really practical but uses a book as an example as to how to get it done, also showing the library's method and wikipedias'.
188-Brooks and his friend's attempt to create a design trajectory using a design tree, but failed. Then he dives into their process of studying the house design process.
189-Their experience finding the transcription scheme and why they struggled so much was because they didn't have a rigorous definition for their design tree
190- Discussion of each design node and how it is related to the others and sorting of different parts of design process.
191-Note of the house wing as design problems, and discussion of the errors encountered in designing the wing.
192- Discussion of design alternatives and how they are not easily realized, and how further discussion of how he changed the tree as the designs changed through the process.
193- Further discussion of how they changed the design tree as the design changed as the process continued, begins tree of decisions versus of designs.
194- Tree of designs is larger, so large in fact it is not practical in design process, but the concept is important. Begins how modular design differs and are easily represented as design trees.
195- Discussion of software tools to analyze a design decision tree, Task architect.
196- Project Mang Tools PERT, IBIS fit very well and Compendium had lots of advantages.
197-Although compendium has advantages it cannot be recommended for design, and relates to CAD and gIBIS and how they are all too precise to have a creative flow.
198-Dred is discussed, brief history of why it was designed who designed it, and who uses it and how it works.
199- Finishes with further information of Dred and how it is useful, but is not available, Notes and Ref
200- Notes and Ref
Patent- US 7078666
LINK: http://www.google.com/patents?id=MGp6AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=ti+wireless+power&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c_9UT4_FLYWItwfdjZmuDQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ti%20wireless%20power&f=false
This is exactly what we are attempting to do transmit power wirelessly and data back. However, they are using a light as the power source with photodetectors to convert it to current and charge whatever they will try to power and send it back using the same principle Issued Jul18, 2006. This is a pretty neat idea its fulfills the same goal as our project but by light is pretty cool we thought about doing that but felt more comfortable with inductance and that we would be able to more power across using inductors.
184-Part of compendium chart Brooks used for house wing design
185-Representing Designs' Trajectories and Rationales quote from Wilkes
186-Introduction is about how he and his friend took his log from designing his new wing and documenting it.
187- Tells how to linearize knowledge and how it isn't really practical but uses a book as an example as to how to get it done, also showing the library's method and wikipedias'.
188-Brooks and his friend's attempt to create a design trajectory using a design tree, but failed. Then he dives into their process of studying the house design process.
189-Their experience finding the transcription scheme and why they struggled so much was because they didn't have a rigorous definition for their design tree
190- Discussion of each design node and how it is related to the others and sorting of different parts of design process.
191-Note of the house wing as design problems, and discussion of the errors encountered in designing the wing.
192- Discussion of design alternatives and how they are not easily realized, and how further discussion of how he changed the tree as the designs changed through the process.
193- Further discussion of how they changed the design tree as the design changed as the process continued, begins tree of decisions versus of designs.
194- Tree of designs is larger, so large in fact it is not practical in design process, but the concept is important. Begins how modular design differs and are easily represented as design trees.
195- Discussion of software tools to analyze a design decision tree, Task architect.
196- Project Mang Tools PERT, IBIS fit very well and Compendium had lots of advantages.
197-Although compendium has advantages it cannot be recommended for design, and relates to CAD and gIBIS and how they are all too precise to have a creative flow.
198-Dred is discussed, brief history of why it was designed who designed it, and who uses it and how it works.
199- Finishes with further information of Dred and how it is useful, but is not available, Notes and Ref
200- Notes and Ref
Patent- US 7078666
LINK: http://www.google.com/patents?id=MGp6AAAAEBAJ&pg=PA10&dq=ti+wireless+power&hl=en&sa=X&ei=c_9UT4_FLYWItwfdjZmuDQ&ved=0CDIQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q=ti%20wireless%20power&f=false
This is exactly what we are attempting to do transmit power wirelessly and data back. However, they are using a light as the power source with photodetectors to convert it to current and charge whatever they will try to power and send it back using the same principle Issued Jul18, 2006. This is a pretty neat idea its fulfills the same goal as our project but by light is pretty cool we thought about doing that but felt more comfortable with inductance and that we would be able to more power across using inductors.
Tuesday, February 28, 2012
2/29/2012
The Design of Design
175- The Divorce of Design quote from Michael Cooley
176- Discussion as to what he means by the designer divorced from his design giving examples from many different fields.
177-Explains why there are divorces of design with two reasons, and gives some brief examples of what happens when there are divorces.
178- Discussion of the first remedy, use-scenario experience, whether it just be a simulation, and discussion of his experience with the remedy.
179- Another example of use-scenario, and discussion of Remedy 2 close interaction with users via incremental development and iterative delivery.
180- He gives his experience with remedy two on two different occasions, and begins discussion of remedy 3 concurrent engineering, implementers are a part of design process.
181-Remedy 4 Education of designers, the designer needs to have direct contact with the user not just reading or hearing about it and notes and references begin.
182- notes and references
183-left blank
Company: Emerson Process Management (Knoxville)
They create instrumentation to monitor vibration for large mechanical assets, motors, pumps etc.. To predict something that may go wrong so you can fix it before your asset is critically damaged. Located 835 Innovation dr. Knoxville TN. Begin in early 1980's employs 125-250, Knoxville location revenue I am not sure about I do however know their sales are above 100 million.
Comments:
From Wally Lowry
Hardware engineer
He said we need to construct our input power circuit to drive our primary coil, and like to see measurements of the power transfer efficiency at different frequencies and different distances to find our optimum power transfer coils. Ultimately, wants to see more implementation, since our goal was to use the power transfer system for a implanted chip.
175- The Divorce of Design quote from Michael Cooley
176- Discussion as to what he means by the designer divorced from his design giving examples from many different fields.
177-Explains why there are divorces of design with two reasons, and gives some brief examples of what happens when there are divorces.
178- Discussion of the first remedy, use-scenario experience, whether it just be a simulation, and discussion of his experience with the remedy.
179- Another example of use-scenario, and discussion of Remedy 2 close interaction with users via incremental development and iterative delivery.
180- He gives his experience with remedy two on two different occasions, and begins discussion of remedy 3 concurrent engineering, implementers are a part of design process.
181-Remedy 4 Education of designers, the designer needs to have direct contact with the user not just reading or hearing about it and notes and references begin.
182- notes and references
183-left blank
Company: Emerson Process Management (Knoxville)
They create instrumentation to monitor vibration for large mechanical assets, motors, pumps etc.. To predict something that may go wrong so you can fix it before your asset is critically damaged. Located 835 Innovation dr. Knoxville TN. Begin in early 1980's employs 125-250, Knoxville location revenue I am not sure about I do however know their sales are above 100 million.
Comments:
From Wally Lowry
Hardware engineer
He said we need to construct our input power circuit to drive our primary coil, and like to see measurements of the power transfer efficiency at different frequencies and different distances to find our optimum power transfer coils. Ultimately, wants to see more implementation, since our goal was to use the power transfer system for a implanted chip.
Monday, February 27, 2012
Feb 27 2012
Design of Design chp 13-14
153- Exemplars in Design quote from Hillier and Penn
154- Discussion of common designs and what makes an exemplar design
155- Exemplar designs in software and computer architecture are discussed
156- Discussion of study of past examples for software and Os's and how to study exemplars
157- He walks us through the study of exemplars and computer architecture at its beginnings.
158- He continues showing exemplars in computer design with IBM examples and third gen computers.
159- Further discussion of the computer revolution from all the technological advancements and how companies missed them being fat dumb and happy.
160- Discussion of how designers can push beyond their own experience using collections of exemplars and going beyond that collection.
161- Begins to relate the discussion of computer architecture just covered to software design.
162- Discussion of obstacles a designer will have to overcome, such as copying the design, or confining ones design, and to how a designer can utilize the other designer work.
163- He discusses how laziness, originality, and pride all play a role in design, and how they pertain to the designer.
164- Notes and ref
165- Notes and ref
166- The tacoma bridge after its collapse from harmonics
167- How expert designers go wrong, quotes from Cromwell and Guardia.
168- He discusses mistakes, how the amateur makes a lot the professional wouldn't but when the professional does mess up its in a big way.
169- He gives his example of how he messed up the the JCL for IBM OS 360, and what JCL was.
170- He further discusses JCL what was wrong with it and compared it to other languages.
171- Further discusses whats wrong with JCL no iteration, no branching, etc...
172- Then he explains how in designing JCL all these inherent flaws happened starting at the very beginning with the idea of how many cards the user will use, and it just grew from there.
173- How they just packed so many different things into JCL lead to its demise, and what they learned form this experience and what to take away from it are given in his "lessons learned"
New technologies on my copy that I added for our group and others
New way to make lithium batteries last longer and charge faster. Can be used for our group using a batter to power our device or any group using a battery if this technology can be scaled to the hybrid car or solar porta potty with a faster charge can help on days when its not sunny all day.
http://androidandme.com/2011/11/news/new-li-ion-battery-technology-offers-10x-battery-life-and-faster-charge-times/
Same purpose as the one above except its a new fuel cell using hydrogen by apple.
http://www.thezigzagger.com/2011/12/23/macbook-battery/
Fultons new way to wirelessly power devices, could be something our group may be able to use.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/24/4287901/fulton-innovation-demonstrates.html
New solar cell the porta potty group could use to make their panels more efficient.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57371835-76/solar-startups-set-new-power-records/
153- Exemplars in Design quote from Hillier and Penn
154- Discussion of common designs and what makes an exemplar design
155- Exemplar designs in software and computer architecture are discussed
156- Discussion of study of past examples for software and Os's and how to study exemplars
157- He walks us through the study of exemplars and computer architecture at its beginnings.
158- He continues showing exemplars in computer design with IBM examples and third gen computers.
159- Further discussion of the computer revolution from all the technological advancements and how companies missed them being fat dumb and happy.
160- Discussion of how designers can push beyond their own experience using collections of exemplars and going beyond that collection.
161- Begins to relate the discussion of computer architecture just covered to software design.
162- Discussion of obstacles a designer will have to overcome, such as copying the design, or confining ones design, and to how a designer can utilize the other designer work.
163- He discusses how laziness, originality, and pride all play a role in design, and how they pertain to the designer.
164- Notes and ref
165- Notes and ref
166- The tacoma bridge after its collapse from harmonics
167- How expert designers go wrong, quotes from Cromwell and Guardia.
168- He discusses mistakes, how the amateur makes a lot the professional wouldn't but when the professional does mess up its in a big way.
169- He gives his example of how he messed up the the JCL for IBM OS 360, and what JCL was.
170- He further discusses JCL what was wrong with it and compared it to other languages.
171- Further discusses whats wrong with JCL no iteration, no branching, etc...
172- Then he explains how in designing JCL all these inherent flaws happened starting at the very beginning with the idea of how many cards the user will use, and it just grew from there.
173- How they just packed so many different things into JCL lead to its demise, and what they learned form this experience and what to take away from it are given in his "lessons learned"
New technologies on my copy that I added for our group and others
New way to make lithium batteries last longer and charge faster. Can be used for our group using a batter to power our device or any group using a battery if this technology can be scaled to the hybrid car or solar porta potty with a faster charge can help on days when its not sunny all day.
http://androidandme.com/2011/11/news/new-li-ion-battery-technology-offers-10x-battery-life-and-faster-charge-times/
Same purpose as the one above except its a new fuel cell using hydrogen by apple.
http://www.thezigzagger.com/2011/12/23/macbook-battery/
Fultons new way to wirelessly power devices, could be something our group may be able to use.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/02/24/4287901/fulton-innovation-demonstrates.html
New solar cell the porta potty group could use to make their panels more efficient.
http://news.cnet.com/8301-11386_3-57371835-76/solar-startups-set-new-power-records/
Wednesday, February 22, 2012
February 22, 2012
Optimization for Engineering Design
Preface
ix. Discussion of what optimization is, how its not utilized, but it is beginning to be more common due to faster computers. Brief process description of optimization, and beginning of the different types of optimization.
x. Discusses optimization and how it is not common to have the two different types of optimization discussed in one book, and then gives a brief description of each chapter.
xi. What algorithms are listed in the book and why they are listed, and why their are hand calculations, and the goals of the book are to give a intro to students and design engineers into optimization.
xii. Basically steps listed to make the information in the book stick, follow the program review the hand calculation, work sample problems using the actual code listed, that is why all the information is given.
xiii. Acknowledgements
xiv. Acknowledgements
1. Introduction into optimization and the many different ways different types of engineers optimize certain tasks in their field. Whether it be minimizing or maximizing both are optimizing.
2. The beginning is deciding what optimization algorithm for what design problem. Introduction as to why a good formulation process is needed and why in many cases there are not good ones used.
3. Tells why the formulation procedure and optimization process are mathematical problem, and shows the flow chart for the optimization design process.
4. Discussion of design variables and which ones maybe important, but ultimately it depends on who the user is. They are important however, to the optimization process because certain algorithms will not work well if too many are used. Begins introduction to constraints.
5. More in depth discussion of constraints and how they may be applied to different areas of engineering and what constraints may be. Then discussion of greater then or less then constraints and how you can vary them, and further on to equality constraints and how they are harder to handle then less than or greater than constraints.
6. One way to handle equality is to do less than or equal to and then have minimum or equal to. Bottom line the less complex the constraints the smoother the optimization will be. 3rd is objective function most of time it is costs, or weight or something you can quantify however, it maybe aesthetic which is harder to handle. In almost all situations you can only pick on objective function so pick most important.
7. Further discussion of the objective function and a detailed look at an example of finding the maximizing and minimizing points for a specific function and a way to manipulate the function to find either the min or max by multiplying by -1. intro to variable bounds.
8. Illustration of duality principle, and discussion of the maximum and minimum variable bounds, how to choose them, and suggestions if they are correct or not.
9. Nonlinear programming problem format is shown, discussion of the problem. Further discussion of a solution to the NLP problem and what may happen in designing that algorithm, and then you get your optimal solution.
Preface
ix. Discussion of what optimization is, how its not utilized, but it is beginning to be more common due to faster computers. Brief process description of optimization, and beginning of the different types of optimization.
x. Discusses optimization and how it is not common to have the two different types of optimization discussed in one book, and then gives a brief description of each chapter.
xi. What algorithms are listed in the book and why they are listed, and why their are hand calculations, and the goals of the book are to give a intro to students and design engineers into optimization.
xii. Basically steps listed to make the information in the book stick, follow the program review the hand calculation, work sample problems using the actual code listed, that is why all the information is given.
xiii. Acknowledgements
xiv. Acknowledgements
1. Introduction into optimization and the many different ways different types of engineers optimize certain tasks in their field. Whether it be minimizing or maximizing both are optimizing.
2. The beginning is deciding what optimization algorithm for what design problem. Introduction as to why a good formulation process is needed and why in many cases there are not good ones used.
3. Tells why the formulation procedure and optimization process are mathematical problem, and shows the flow chart for the optimization design process.
4. Discussion of design variables and which ones maybe important, but ultimately it depends on who the user is. They are important however, to the optimization process because certain algorithms will not work well if too many are used. Begins introduction to constraints.
5. More in depth discussion of constraints and how they may be applied to different areas of engineering and what constraints may be. Then discussion of greater then or less then constraints and how you can vary them, and further on to equality constraints and how they are harder to handle then less than or greater than constraints.
6. One way to handle equality is to do less than or equal to and then have minimum or equal to. Bottom line the less complex the constraints the smoother the optimization will be. 3rd is objective function most of time it is costs, or weight or something you can quantify however, it maybe aesthetic which is harder to handle. In almost all situations you can only pick on objective function so pick most important.
7. Further discussion of the objective function and a detailed look at an example of finding the maximizing and minimizing points for a specific function and a way to manipulate the function to find either the min or max by multiplying by -1. intro to variable bounds.
8. Illustration of duality principle, and discussion of the maximum and minimum variable bounds, how to choose them, and suggestions if they are correct or not.
9. Nonlinear programming problem format is shown, discussion of the problem. Further discussion of a solution to the NLP problem and what may happen in designing that algorithm, and then you get your optimal solution.
Sunday, February 19, 2012
Feb 20 2012
Design of Design chp 11-12
127 - Chapter 11: Constraints are friends, James Taylors song is quoted.
128 - Discussion of how constraints can help or hinder the design process. He gives examples of this.
129 - Shows the four different types of constraints, misperceived dot puzzle constraint.
130 - Further discussion of misperceived constraints, and gives examples and a diagram of triple modular redundant processor.
131 - He further discusses the constraint issues of the IBM project and the project they built the FAA system.
132 - Focus is on what you need not how it is achieved, diagram of the delivered 9020 FAA system
133 - Focuses on narrowing the design space, and gives general purpose design discussion.
134 - Designing of special purpose architecture and excellent general purpose architecture are discussed, and how the prototypes have to be tested by actual users.
135 - Discusses how the same paradox applies in software where it is much simpler to design special purpose intead of just a beautifully balance general-purpose design, also related to spatial design.
136 - Notes and references with an answer to the dot puzzle
137 - Blank
138 - Photo of Monticello
139 - Chapter 12: Esthetics and Style in Technical Design with quotes from Vitruvius and Chesterfield
140 - Gives history of esthetics in technical design and how they play into modern day.
141 - Discussion of parsimony with some examples how it can be so powerful with some little extra complexities added. Examples Van der Poel's single operation machine and the APL programming language as examples.
142 - Being straightforward is crucial with redundancy and comprehensibility, and consistency are both important.
143 - Consistency flow three major design principles: orthogonality, propriety , and generality. Orthogonality, and propriety are discussed in more detail.
144 - Discussion of generality and how it gives some freedom.
145 - Discussion of styles and how they are related to consistencies and how they are related to people.
146 - Definitions of style are discussed and that style deals with details of the design example micro-decisions.
147 - Even further discussion of style, and he gives his definition of style.
148 - Gives the properties of style and then specifications, in hierarchal, and costly. Leading to how styles evolve.
149 - A styles micro-decisions needs to be documented especially in a team design process.
150 - Guide to style, making conscious judgements etc.. then notes and references
151 - Notes and references
01 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ohs1fD-gQ&t=40s shark-inspired
His design is cool, but I was more interested in how he talked about pulling inspiration from all the things around him and in nature.
02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz9OvPqBEoc foot tank
03 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3iKpVf0dGg chariot
I thought the chariot was a pretty cool design, It kinda weirded me out how natural the legs looked in motion.
04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ITIng-ksQg little bits
I think these are pretty cool little designs I think it would be great for kids and in classrooms.05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiTTrT29HI0 knit
06 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RasOkpNn_68 3D printing
07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMI50ESguQ beat
08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AozxIwc9ig rhetorical
I like his models not necessarily all his inspiration for them but he has great ideas of implementing the working model.09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7CX9MBtH8 chimes
10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoVQZXDCw8 elmo
11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_2zWhPJvW8 closed caption cloud
12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeXI2cOCxo custom furniture
13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWTw4B7v9I laser cutter
14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvprJtJzka0 shark
Haha this is great, more impressed with the idea instead of the actual implementation. Pretty cool to watch.15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zX-9nXPy-Q solid model
This is awesome most impressive for me, and I like how he unites the two.
127 - Chapter 11: Constraints are friends, James Taylors song is quoted.
128 - Discussion of how constraints can help or hinder the design process. He gives examples of this.
129 - Shows the four different types of constraints, misperceived dot puzzle constraint.
130 - Further discussion of misperceived constraints, and gives examples and a diagram of triple modular redundant processor.
131 - He further discusses the constraint issues of the IBM project and the project they built the FAA system.
132 - Focus is on what you need not how it is achieved, diagram of the delivered 9020 FAA system
133 - Focuses on narrowing the design space, and gives general purpose design discussion.
134 - Designing of special purpose architecture and excellent general purpose architecture are discussed, and how the prototypes have to be tested by actual users.
135 - Discusses how the same paradox applies in software where it is much simpler to design special purpose intead of just a beautifully balance general-purpose design, also related to spatial design.
136 - Notes and references with an answer to the dot puzzle
137 - Blank
138 - Photo of Monticello
139 - Chapter 12: Esthetics and Style in Technical Design with quotes from Vitruvius and Chesterfield
140 - Gives history of esthetics in technical design and how they play into modern day.
141 - Discussion of parsimony with some examples how it can be so powerful with some little extra complexities added. Examples Van der Poel's single operation machine and the APL programming language as examples.
142 - Being straightforward is crucial with redundancy and comprehensibility, and consistency are both important.
143 - Consistency flow three major design principles: orthogonality, propriety , and generality. Orthogonality, and propriety are discussed in more detail.
144 - Discussion of generality and how it gives some freedom.
145 - Discussion of styles and how they are related to consistencies and how they are related to people.
146 - Definitions of style are discussed and that style deals with details of the design example micro-decisions.
147 - Even further discussion of style, and he gives his definition of style.
148 - Gives the properties of style and then specifications, in hierarchal, and costly. Leading to how styles evolve.
149 - A styles micro-decisions needs to be documented especially in a team design process.
150 - Guide to style, making conscious judgements etc.. then notes and references
151 - Notes and references
01 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99ohs1fD-gQ&t=40s shark-inspired
His design is cool, but I was more interested in how he talked about pulling inspiration from all the things around him and in nature.
02 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iz9OvPqBEoc foot tank
03 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y3iKpVf0dGg chariot
I thought the chariot was a pretty cool design, It kinda weirded me out how natural the legs looked in motion.
04 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ITIng-ksQg little bits
I think these are pretty cool little designs I think it would be great for kids and in classrooms.05 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiTTrT29HI0 knit
06 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RasOkpNn_68 3D printing
07 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VHMI50ESguQ beat
08 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-AozxIwc9ig rhetorical
I like his models not necessarily all his inspiration for them but he has great ideas of implementing the working model.09 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq7CX9MBtH8 chimes
10 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoVQZXDCw8 elmo
11 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_2zWhPJvW8 closed caption cloud
12 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DeXI2cOCxo custom furniture
13 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wWTw4B7v9I laser cutter
14 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cvprJtJzka0 shark
Haha this is great, more impressed with the idea instead of the actual implementation. Pretty cool to watch.15 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zX-9nXPy-Q solid model
This is awesome most impressive for me, and I like how he unites the two.
Monday, February 13, 2012
2/13/2012 Technologies &105-125
Design of Design pg 105-125
105- Chp 8 Rationalism versus Empiricism in design- 2 quotes first from John Locke stating that all men are liable to error and that most are in temptation to it. 2nd From Rene Descartes talks about our understanding and what it relies on.
106- Discusses the meaning of Rationalism and Empiricism and how the designer is in believed to be flawed with error or can make a sound design without flaw. Gives examples of people who stood for one view or the other.
107- First discusses rationalism and empiricism applied to software design, and then discusses his own experience and why he believes in empiricism and gives account of programming he did in grad school at harvard could support rationalism.
108- Discussion of how mathematical theories have been disprove and how that supports empiricism, and discusses Harlan Mills clean room technique with systematic test for correctness.
109- Discusses not only software but the design of the constitution, buildings, hardware, and now how many designs are scrutinized by empirical analyses to fulfill the desiderata, and ultimately you can not design a complex object with thought alone.
110- Notes and References
111- Notes and References
112- Picture of an Architecture team from Anderson Ross/Getty images Inc
113-Quote from Sir Francis Bacon-"Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion"
114- Discussion of experienced designers defining who the user is and how it will be used, although not everyone will write it down all people have a user and use model, and teams do not always have the same models.
115- Further discussion of how members of a team can have different assumptions about the user and use models. He also talks about how the designer is confronted when he starts to make use models and gives an example.
116- The troubles that arise when designer start creating use models, and once he reaches where his questions cannot be answered he must guess but it needs to be articulated. He also discusses the benefits from guessing.
117- Brooks discusses that the designer will have use and user models whether realizing it or not most of the time, he will design as if he is the user even though he will not be, and explains why wrong user models are better than vague ones. Notes and references begins
118- picture of apollo space rocket
119-Chp 10 Inches, Ounces, Bits, Dollars- The Budgeted Resource, quote from the book one must name the scarce resource to have conceptual integrity.
120- Talks about what is the budgeted resource and what is perceived to be the budgeted resource, not always monetary, and examples are given.
121- Talks about the benefits and problems of a designer using surrogates for their design, and how the resource can change giving a example of chip designs where I/O pins became the budgeted resource over chip areas.
122- Discussion of Eoin Woods quote how people often measure the value delivered and what it takes to deliver it. Brooks gives his own experience with budgeted resource changing on O/S 360 from memory bytes to disk space.
123- Further discussion of what the budgeted resource may be and other aspects that go into design but are not part of the design such as skill allocation. He states the whole team needs to know the budget for the critical resource, consistently through out the process, and only one person needs to control the budgeting of the resource.
124- Ken Iverson winner of the Turing Award is discussed for keeping conceptual integrity of above all else as priority creating the APL language and winning the reward. Marissa Meyer uses the same qualities at Google guarding it look and feel.
125- Notes and References
Technologies
Airless tires- http://www.geekologie.com/2009/09/military-experimenting-with-ai.php
Obviously airless tires would be a break through not more worrying about flat tires would be awesome. Also, the fact that the military can use them to support their huge vehicles is awesome.
A hologram -http://www.geekologie.com/2009/08/holodeck-coming-soon-touchable.php
its a hologram in a sense, Its not what you automatically think of but they are definitely on the track to making one you would see in a Star Wars. Its pretty neat and the fact you would be able to feel it is something I hadn't heard of before.
Microsofts Surface Computer- http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/4217348
Ok so at first it looks like a huge ipad but microsoft is actually on to something here it utilizes wireless technology, and also a set of infrared cameras to see what is sitting on the surface and allows you to manipulate those objects using the surface computer its pretty neat but doesn't get to the good stuff till toward the end.
105- Chp 8 Rationalism versus Empiricism in design- 2 quotes first from John Locke stating that all men are liable to error and that most are in temptation to it. 2nd From Rene Descartes talks about our understanding and what it relies on.
106- Discusses the meaning of Rationalism and Empiricism and how the designer is in believed to be flawed with error or can make a sound design without flaw. Gives examples of people who stood for one view or the other.
107- First discusses rationalism and empiricism applied to software design, and then discusses his own experience and why he believes in empiricism and gives account of programming he did in grad school at harvard could support rationalism.
108- Discussion of how mathematical theories have been disprove and how that supports empiricism, and discusses Harlan Mills clean room technique with systematic test for correctness.
109- Discusses not only software but the design of the constitution, buildings, hardware, and now how many designs are scrutinized by empirical analyses to fulfill the desiderata, and ultimately you can not design a complex object with thought alone.
110- Notes and References
111- Notes and References
112- Picture of an Architecture team from Anderson Ross/Getty images Inc
113-Quote from Sir Francis Bacon-"Truth will sooner come out of error than from confusion"
114- Discussion of experienced designers defining who the user is and how it will be used, although not everyone will write it down all people have a user and use model, and teams do not always have the same models.
115- Further discussion of how members of a team can have different assumptions about the user and use models. He also talks about how the designer is confronted when he starts to make use models and gives an example.
116- The troubles that arise when designer start creating use models, and once he reaches where his questions cannot be answered he must guess but it needs to be articulated. He also discusses the benefits from guessing.
117- Brooks discusses that the designer will have use and user models whether realizing it or not most of the time, he will design as if he is the user even though he will not be, and explains why wrong user models are better than vague ones. Notes and references begins
118- picture of apollo space rocket
119-Chp 10 Inches, Ounces, Bits, Dollars- The Budgeted Resource, quote from the book one must name the scarce resource to have conceptual integrity.
120- Talks about what is the budgeted resource and what is perceived to be the budgeted resource, not always monetary, and examples are given.
121- Talks about the benefits and problems of a designer using surrogates for their design, and how the resource can change giving a example of chip designs where I/O pins became the budgeted resource over chip areas.
122- Discussion of Eoin Woods quote how people often measure the value delivered and what it takes to deliver it. Brooks gives his own experience with budgeted resource changing on O/S 360 from memory bytes to disk space.
123- Further discussion of what the budgeted resource may be and other aspects that go into design but are not part of the design such as skill allocation. He states the whole team needs to know the budget for the critical resource, consistently through out the process, and only one person needs to control the budgeting of the resource.
124- Ken Iverson winner of the Turing Award is discussed for keeping conceptual integrity of above all else as priority creating the APL language and winning the reward. Marissa Meyer uses the same qualities at Google guarding it look and feel.
125- Notes and References
Technologies
Airless tires- http://www.geekologie.com/2009/09/military-experimenting-with-ai.php
Obviously airless tires would be a break through not more worrying about flat tires would be awesome. Also, the fact that the military can use them to support their huge vehicles is awesome.
A hologram -http://www.geekologie.com/2009/08/holodeck-coming-soon-touchable.php
its a hologram in a sense, Its not what you automatically think of but they are definitely on the track to making one you would see in a Star Wars. Its pretty neat and the fact you would be able to feel it is something I hadn't heard of before.
Microsofts Surface Computer- http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/gadgets/news/4217348
Ok so at first it looks like a huge ipad but microsoft is actually on to something here it utilizes wireless technology, and also a set of infrared cameras to see what is sitting on the surface and allows you to manipulate those objects using the surface computer its pretty neat but doesn't get to the good stuff till toward the end.
Tuesday, February 7, 2012
February 8 2012
Design of Design Chp 7
pg 89 Chp 7- Telecollaboration quote from Marshall Mcluhan "The new electronic interdependance recreates the world in the image of a global village"
90 - Discussion of why design teams use Telecollaboration, because of specialization most of the time they aren't experts collocated, also because people prefer different areas to live, continuous work around the clock with different time-zones, and outsourcing certain jobs requires telecommunications.
91- Design teams also use telecollaboration when politics become involved with govt projects many times different parts are built in different parts of the country or world and they need to collaborate such as Airbus 380 project.
92- Discussion of when he was project manager for IBM System/360 and it was developed in four different locations and then even further into other countries, and talks about using the transatlantic phone line and buying a lot of airline tickets.
93- Continues with his experience at IBM and their techniques for collaboration. Then he discusses how to make telecollaboration work, but ultimately you will need to have face to face time.
94- He continues discussing how face time is important and gives example of what they did at IBM and what Boeing did for the beginning of the 777 design. He discusses defining Clean Interfaces and how it can keep errors down in design.
95- Technologies for Telecollaboration and they discuss just the basic document ,word document, for collaboration and that although technology is getting better and better it will probably never suffice for face time.
96-The telephone, and shared document are discussed separately and together as form of telecollaboaration and it is powerful and gives an example where a co-worker used them over videoconferencing.
97- Videoconferencing is the subject of this page and he talks about its limits field of view, needs better document sharing, more resolution, and better depth. He then discusses how it is useful to screen job applicants, when it is vital to one or more participants, when one participant is insecure or to cross cultural bounds.
98- He briefly discusses high tech telecollaboration, moves on to discuss telecollaboration as a whole and what a search on the web turned up and why he is concerned the results, it concludes with notes and references.
ACTA-
This agreement focuses obviously on the counterfeiting of almost any kind of proprietary information in almost anyway. Its creating a international agreement between many different countries and stopping any thing that breaks the rules of this agreement from coming into each particular country. It would have to create some sort of organization to mitigate the details of this agreement on an international level. I think that the agreement is not detailed enough about how the agreement may be broken. I also think it leaves alot of room for each country to make its own details about the laws of the counterfeiting and how to enforce and punish the ones who break the law. It discusses about goods coming into different countries as a major problem then getting re-distributed, without having the proper copyrights on them.
There are a number of different scenarios where there could be infringements on this agreement.
It says that roleplaying from a cinematographic work can be under the counterfeiting of intellectual property, and I do not know where the line can be drawn from this. Is that school plays? that dont have permission from the company withholding the rights. Article 27,7-b , "or make available to the public copies of works, performances, or phonograms, knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority. "
Or the distribution of any intellectual property includes over the web, but it doesn't say to what extent the agreement goes just using the title of something or actually showing clips from movies or songs. Playing songs at certain events that a dj would be at. Does he have to require permission from the artist to play his songs regularly. Article 27 paragraph 5, and 7-b "restrict acts in respect of, their works, performances, and phonograms, which are not authorized by the authors, the performers or the producers of phonograms
concerned"
What if a choir or singers group from a church or school or any other organization singing an artists songs and they make a cd to sell to fundraise for a trip to be in a competition or anything along those lines it could be infringement. Article 27 paragraph 5, and 7-b "restrict acts in respect of, their works, performances, and phonograms, which are not authorized by the authors, the performers or the producers of phonograms
concerned"
Anderson Center
On March 13 during the Vol Court entrepreneurial workshop they will have a pitch competition at the end of the series for a cash prize of 1000 and 2nd gets 500. The workshops have different entrepreneurial companies come in and talk about starting up a company and students get a chance to question them.
Also, there is an undergraduate business plan competition. ACEI competition and Boyd venture fund plan competition. Both are for plans for businesses. Boyd competition offers up to $20,000 in rewards to get grants for already established student businesses but doesn't give details. ACEI offers 1st-5000, 2nd-3000, and 3rd 2000 for two groups technology and lifestyle so a total of 6 teams get rewards.
pg 89 Chp 7- Telecollaboration quote from Marshall Mcluhan "The new electronic interdependance recreates the world in the image of a global village"
90 - Discussion of why design teams use Telecollaboration, because of specialization most of the time they aren't experts collocated, also because people prefer different areas to live, continuous work around the clock with different time-zones, and outsourcing certain jobs requires telecommunications.
91- Design teams also use telecollaboration when politics become involved with govt projects many times different parts are built in different parts of the country or world and they need to collaborate such as Airbus 380 project.
92- Discussion of when he was project manager for IBM System/360 and it was developed in four different locations and then even further into other countries, and talks about using the transatlantic phone line and buying a lot of airline tickets.
93- Continues with his experience at IBM and their techniques for collaboration. Then he discusses how to make telecollaboration work, but ultimately you will need to have face to face time.
94- He continues discussing how face time is important and gives example of what they did at IBM and what Boeing did for the beginning of the 777 design. He discusses defining Clean Interfaces and how it can keep errors down in design.
95- Technologies for Telecollaboration and they discuss just the basic document ,word document, for collaboration and that although technology is getting better and better it will probably never suffice for face time.
96-The telephone, and shared document are discussed separately and together as form of telecollaboaration and it is powerful and gives an example where a co-worker used them over videoconferencing.
97- Videoconferencing is the subject of this page and he talks about its limits field of view, needs better document sharing, more resolution, and better depth. He then discusses how it is useful to screen job applicants, when it is vital to one or more participants, when one participant is insecure or to cross cultural bounds.
98- He briefly discusses high tech telecollaboration, moves on to discuss telecollaboration as a whole and what a search on the web turned up and why he is concerned the results, it concludes with notes and references.
ACTA-
This agreement focuses obviously on the counterfeiting of almost any kind of proprietary information in almost anyway. Its creating a international agreement between many different countries and stopping any thing that breaks the rules of this agreement from coming into each particular country. It would have to create some sort of organization to mitigate the details of this agreement on an international level. I think that the agreement is not detailed enough about how the agreement may be broken. I also think it leaves alot of room for each country to make its own details about the laws of the counterfeiting and how to enforce and punish the ones who break the law. It discusses about goods coming into different countries as a major problem then getting re-distributed, without having the proper copyrights on them.
There are a number of different scenarios where there could be infringements on this agreement.
It says that roleplaying from a cinematographic work can be under the counterfeiting of intellectual property, and I do not know where the line can be drawn from this. Is that school plays? that dont have permission from the company withholding the rights. Article 27,7-b , "or make available to the public copies of works, performances, or phonograms, knowing that electronic rights management information has been removed or altered without authority. "
Or the distribution of any intellectual property includes over the web, but it doesn't say to what extent the agreement goes just using the title of something or actually showing clips from movies or songs. Playing songs at certain events that a dj would be at. Does he have to require permission from the artist to play his songs regularly. Article 27 paragraph 5, and 7-b "restrict acts in respect of, their works, performances, and phonograms, which are not authorized by the authors, the performers or the producers of phonograms
concerned"
What if a choir or singers group from a church or school or any other organization singing an artists songs and they make a cd to sell to fundraise for a trip to be in a competition or anything along those lines it could be infringement. Article 27 paragraph 5, and 7-b "restrict acts in respect of, their works, performances, and phonograms, which are not authorized by the authors, the performers or the producers of phonograms
concerned"
Anderson Center
On March 13 during the Vol Court entrepreneurial workshop they will have a pitch competition at the end of the series for a cash prize of 1000 and 2nd gets 500. The workshops have different entrepreneurial companies come in and talk about starting up a company and students get a chance to question them.
Also, there is an undergraduate business plan competition. ACEI competition and Boyd venture fund plan competition. Both are for plans for businesses. Boyd competition offers up to $20,000 in rewards to get grants for already established student businesses but doesn't give details. ACEI offers 1st-5000, 2nd-3000, and 3rd 2000 for two groups technology and lifestyle so a total of 6 teams get rewards.
Monday, February 6, 2012
12-24 Fred Brook 2/6/2012
Fred Brooks 12-24
Everyone of the mainframe manufacturer snow white and seven dwarfs missed the mini computer because their business was really good. Micro computers every one of mini computers missed the micro computer, personal computers instead of mainframe, both were fueled by sociological aspects. Beginners make baby mistakes, but experts make huge mistakes, talks about his experience by talking about a language that was designed underneath his manage. Didn't understand schedule time programming language on designing this language. The desiderata is also whats wrong on this model it is always changing. As one wrestles with the design the desiderata changes also. He talks about where he studied payrolls, and how it is always changing in big companies. Discusses his house design and how he had went through so much hassle to meet the requirement and eventually decided he will just have to buy land from his neighbor to meet the requirements it's thinking outside the box. The rational model is fundamentally wrong, it doesn't really describe whats going on. Talks about Germany and United States adopted a design model, and has been modified over and over, and how they have been trying to change it because it doesn't have how real design experts actually work.
Design of Design Chp 6
pg 63- Collaboration in Design, quote from Bernard Baruch- a meeting is a refuge from the dreariness of labor and loneliness of thought.
64- Talks about the two big changes in design recently, most of it is done in teams and that the teams now collaborate using telecommunications. That it is a good thing they are in teams but its not universally true. Have to worry about conceptual integrity.
65 - Saying that most great works over our history have been made by one mind maybe two and that two is the magic number, has a picture of Nautilus Sub which we dont know who the chief designer is.
66- Discusses why engineering design has shifted from solo to teams. Because technology sophistication is the main driving reason for teams. Everything is so made so complex now days to keep up.
67- Talks about how sophisticated it has become for even farmers, baker, and mill workers. That we need the know how of masters from various different fields. Also, driving for for sophistication is need for new products.
68- Costs of Collaboration- partitioning of a design takes more time. Since there is more in design team there is a cost of teaching everyone and bringing them up to speed on goals and details of the design.
69- Also must develop a way to control the change of the design so it is specific for one user and his work. Design integrity and Wren's St Pauls's Cathedral with picture.
70- Discusses in more detail conceptual integrity what it could be and why one or two mind designs usually have more integrity.
71- Discusses briefly why people think his argument is wrong and then discusses the beginning to getting conceptual integrity with a team design. Having one system architect is best way to ensure conceptual integrity.
72- Further discussion of the system architect and then another way to ensure integrity is to have one user-interface designer.
73- Further hitting on why their needs to be one key designer who understands all of it and starts to discuss the benefits of collaboration.
74- Discussion of collaboration working because the designers ask different questions and how their contradiction in opinion can help, and they brainstorm together.
75- Competition as a alternative to collaboration is discussed by having design challenges with known constraints, and discusses Brunelleschi and the Santa Maria del Fior with his radical concepts.
76- Discusses how he has been a judge in a design competition at IBM, and how in Civil Engineering they are more readily to have design competitions for a particular job.
77-Unplanned design competitions happen in product fights or in the market when two products become similar in certain market goal. He also begins to discuss design review
78- Further discussion of design review and why it is important because it involves so many people beyond just the designers and gives and example for a submarine being built.
79- They "fantasy" concept for design collaboration and how it works, and then discusses how it ultimately doesn't work when the collaborators do design.
80- Discusses design control and ultimately relays his opinions back to the example of nuclear sub, and how it is difficult in a virtual reality design to do some things, and conceptual integrity is out the window.
81-Conceptual design definitely cannot be collaborative, and he discusses why two person teams are great throughout the process and relates to other jobs in the world where two people are required.
82- Gives more backing of two person teams iron sharpens iron and how well they did in a study. Also as to why so many computer scientist tools have ever made it into every day use.
83- All of this explains why they should be leery of placing graduate students with no real world design into collaborative design projects, and the rest is notes and references.
Everyone of the mainframe manufacturer snow white and seven dwarfs missed the mini computer because their business was really good. Micro computers every one of mini computers missed the micro computer, personal computers instead of mainframe, both were fueled by sociological aspects. Beginners make baby mistakes, but experts make huge mistakes, talks about his experience by talking about a language that was designed underneath his manage. Didn't understand schedule time programming language on designing this language. The desiderata is also whats wrong on this model it is always changing. As one wrestles with the design the desiderata changes also. He talks about where he studied payrolls, and how it is always changing in big companies. Discusses his house design and how he had went through so much hassle to meet the requirement and eventually decided he will just have to buy land from his neighbor to meet the requirements it's thinking outside the box. The rational model is fundamentally wrong, it doesn't really describe whats going on. Talks about Germany and United States adopted a design model, and has been modified over and over, and how they have been trying to change it because it doesn't have how real design experts actually work.
Design of Design Chp 6
pg 63- Collaboration in Design, quote from Bernard Baruch- a meeting is a refuge from the dreariness of labor and loneliness of thought.
64- Talks about the two big changes in design recently, most of it is done in teams and that the teams now collaborate using telecommunications. That it is a good thing they are in teams but its not universally true. Have to worry about conceptual integrity.
65 - Saying that most great works over our history have been made by one mind maybe two and that two is the magic number, has a picture of Nautilus Sub which we dont know who the chief designer is.
66- Discusses why engineering design has shifted from solo to teams. Because technology sophistication is the main driving reason for teams. Everything is so made so complex now days to keep up.
67- Talks about how sophisticated it has become for even farmers, baker, and mill workers. That we need the know how of masters from various different fields. Also, driving for for sophistication is need for new products.
68- Costs of Collaboration- partitioning of a design takes more time. Since there is more in design team there is a cost of teaching everyone and bringing them up to speed on goals and details of the design.
69- Also must develop a way to control the change of the design so it is specific for one user and his work. Design integrity and Wren's St Pauls's Cathedral with picture.
70- Discusses in more detail conceptual integrity what it could be and why one or two mind designs usually have more integrity.
71- Discusses briefly why people think his argument is wrong and then discusses the beginning to getting conceptual integrity with a team design. Having one system architect is best way to ensure conceptual integrity.
72- Further discussion of the system architect and then another way to ensure integrity is to have one user-interface designer.
73- Further hitting on why their needs to be one key designer who understands all of it and starts to discuss the benefits of collaboration.
74- Discussion of collaboration working because the designers ask different questions and how their contradiction in opinion can help, and they brainstorm together.
75- Competition as a alternative to collaboration is discussed by having design challenges with known constraints, and discusses Brunelleschi and the Santa Maria del Fior with his radical concepts.
76- Discusses how he has been a judge in a design competition at IBM, and how in Civil Engineering they are more readily to have design competitions for a particular job.
77-Unplanned design competitions happen in product fights or in the market when two products become similar in certain market goal. He also begins to discuss design review
78- Further discussion of design review and why it is important because it involves so many people beyond just the designers and gives and example for a submarine being built.
79- They "fantasy" concept for design collaboration and how it works, and then discusses how it ultimately doesn't work when the collaborators do design.
80- Discusses design control and ultimately relays his opinions back to the example of nuclear sub, and how it is difficult in a virtual reality design to do some things, and conceptual integrity is out the window.
81-Conceptual design definitely cannot be collaborative, and he discusses why two person teams are great throughout the process and relates to other jobs in the world where two people are required.
82- Gives more backing of two person teams iron sharpens iron and how well they did in a study. Also as to why so many computer scientist tools have ever made it into every day use.
83- All of this explains why they should be leery of placing graduate students with no real world design into collaborative design projects, and the rest is notes and references.
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Wednesday February 1st
New York Times Article
The article discusses the many different reasons as to why Apple in particular has moved so much of their manufacturing process overseas. It goes in depth as to why so many of the jobs that used to be in America Apple has now moved to China. Showing that the US workforce doesn't have people with the proper skill set and background to do the job. For instance that most Americans are either high-school diploma or bachelor's degree, but what Apple is searching for is in between, and on top of that the flexibility of the plants in China is way more beneficial to the company that needs their product to be reproduced. The article also pays some tribute to an engineer that use to work for Apple and then got laid off and the process of the engineers being replaced with robots or their jobs being outsourced and his personal job search from teacher to technician and ultimately back to nothing because it wasn't worth it. The article takes in perspectives of economists prediction of the American workforce and what it would take to bring those jobs back over here. It gives example to how amazing the Foxconn plant in China is from testimonies of anonymous Apple employees as to how quick they can have people working how many they can having working and even if they need to hire a certain amount, all in comparison to how much faster they can do it in China compared to US. The article explores how the company also created jobs in the US and how they have benefited the entire global community. It's just not near as profitable for apple to manufacture their products in the US. The article also covers Mr. Jobs and Mr. Obama very short conversation at a dinner when Jobs was speaking and Obama asked what it would take to bring the iphone back to the US to be produced.
Brooks youtube video
Francis Bacon says that new ideas are will happen when the transfer from observations of one art are uses for another art. Can the older design systems that have been theorized be learned from these and help us in the new design process. Bruneleschi had a support team but was one mind in the design. Our problems that are different from the old design is that now it is a team. The critical budget isn't always monetary it could be time or bandwidth or it could be cost. He discusses the design of his house and kept a detailed log and has been putting it into electronic form and is trying to show the design trees. It shows the differences of a simpleminded model and how it actually works. He also discusses that usually in the design process you do not know what you are trying to build or at times you can not know what you are trying to design. He also discusses his experience with designing a software system to organize a man's thousands of drawings to make his point. Many times you cannot have a separation of design process from the requirements process.
Francis Bacon- as relates to our class was a author and pioneer of scientific method, he created some principals for methodology that still hold true today. He developed methods for investigating all things natural which set up the basics for different methodologies.
Brunelleschi- An italian architect and engineer in the renaissance developed linear perspective, designed duomo of Florence. He also had one of the first modern patents, he created theatrical machinery to work out the plays for churches for Bible stories.
Christopher Wren- A renowned architect in the late 1600's- 1700's responsibility of rebuilding many churches in Englad due to the fire of 1666, he studied at oxford was a geometer, physicist, and architect.
His scientific studies of moon lead to the micrometer for telescopes. He was the first to succeed at injecting something into the blood stream. He also studied, agriculture, ballistics, the planets and their orbits, water and freezings.
Herbert Simon- Was a economist, American political scientist, sociologist, psychologist, and professor. His works have contributed to him being a founding father of artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. Created logic theory machine, and information-processing language.
Desiderata- In lating means desired things, so for design process it could be your desired goals for your design.
Paper protoypes-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppnRQD06ggY
Is a software paper prototype that shows the user clicking and then swapping out the section of the paper to go to the next step of the software hands are doing the work of the software by changing the user interface. All done on front of a computer monitor
Hanmail Paper prototyping- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrV2SZuRPv0
Paper prototype is just on a table laid out with sections that become unfolded and extend and also has it where sections are replaced by whole different other sections to replicate running the software when it is clicked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq1rkVTZLtU
This prototype is for a program to run on your cell phone to find your friends. To do this they replace the entire outline of the prototype with every step they take into the program instead of having moving sections or replacing specific sections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TbyXq3XHSc
This is another prototype for a application on our phone but to accomplish their prototype the have a cutout of their phone and the software simulation is scrolled along to change the different steps they go through to run the program.
My paper prototype was not very good compared to these videos I used mine more as a presentation to lead into my technology I was doing it on. My technology was elastic conductors made from carbon nanotubes which could have been a variety of things, such as stretchable electronics, bendable displays, smart fabric with antennas built in such as scuba gear to send out a gps signal, and also to create the sense of touch for robots with a fabric as its skin. My prototype I decided to do a bendable display much like that of the roll up laptop that was shown in front of the class I also tried to build a tripod, and was gonna say bendable displays could be made compact enough to carry that you could present anywhere without a projector and you could just set up your display and do your presentation. However, I got my tripod built but to get the screen to stay on the tripod after it has been rolled up was difficult, but I told my classmates my idea.
The article discusses the many different reasons as to why Apple in particular has moved so much of their manufacturing process overseas. It goes in depth as to why so many of the jobs that used to be in America Apple has now moved to China. Showing that the US workforce doesn't have people with the proper skill set and background to do the job. For instance that most Americans are either high-school diploma or bachelor's degree, but what Apple is searching for is in between, and on top of that the flexibility of the plants in China is way more beneficial to the company that needs their product to be reproduced. The article also pays some tribute to an engineer that use to work for Apple and then got laid off and the process of the engineers being replaced with robots or their jobs being outsourced and his personal job search from teacher to technician and ultimately back to nothing because it wasn't worth it. The article takes in perspectives of economists prediction of the American workforce and what it would take to bring those jobs back over here. It gives example to how amazing the Foxconn plant in China is from testimonies of anonymous Apple employees as to how quick they can have people working how many they can having working and even if they need to hire a certain amount, all in comparison to how much faster they can do it in China compared to US. The article explores how the company also created jobs in the US and how they have benefited the entire global community. It's just not near as profitable for apple to manufacture their products in the US. The article also covers Mr. Jobs and Mr. Obama very short conversation at a dinner when Jobs was speaking and Obama asked what it would take to bring the iphone back to the US to be produced.
Brooks youtube video
Francis Bacon says that new ideas are will happen when the transfer from observations of one art are uses for another art. Can the older design systems that have been theorized be learned from these and help us in the new design process. Bruneleschi had a support team but was one mind in the design. Our problems that are different from the old design is that now it is a team. The critical budget isn't always monetary it could be time or bandwidth or it could be cost. He discusses the design of his house and kept a detailed log and has been putting it into electronic form and is trying to show the design trees. It shows the differences of a simpleminded model and how it actually works. He also discusses that usually in the design process you do not know what you are trying to build or at times you can not know what you are trying to design. He also discusses his experience with designing a software system to organize a man's thousands of drawings to make his point. Many times you cannot have a separation of design process from the requirements process.
Francis Bacon- as relates to our class was a author and pioneer of scientific method, he created some principals for methodology that still hold true today. He developed methods for investigating all things natural which set up the basics for different methodologies.
Brunelleschi- An italian architect and engineer in the renaissance developed linear perspective, designed duomo of Florence. He also had one of the first modern patents, he created theatrical machinery to work out the plays for churches for Bible stories.
Christopher Wren- A renowned architect in the late 1600's- 1700's responsibility of rebuilding many churches in Englad due to the fire of 1666, he studied at oxford was a geometer, physicist, and architect.
His scientific studies of moon lead to the micrometer for telescopes. He was the first to succeed at injecting something into the blood stream. He also studied, agriculture, ballistics, the planets and their orbits, water and freezings.
Herbert Simon- Was a economist, American political scientist, sociologist, psychologist, and professor. His works have contributed to him being a founding father of artificial intelligence, information processing, decision-making, problem-solving, and computer simulation of scientific discovery. Created logic theory machine, and information-processing language.
Desiderata- In lating means desired things, so for design process it could be your desired goals for your design.
Paper protoypes-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppnRQD06ggY
Is a software paper prototype that shows the user clicking and then swapping out the section of the paper to go to the next step of the software hands are doing the work of the software by changing the user interface. All done on front of a computer monitor
Hanmail Paper prototyping- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrV2SZuRPv0
Paper prototype is just on a table laid out with sections that become unfolded and extend and also has it where sections are replaced by whole different other sections to replicate running the software when it is clicked.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bq1rkVTZLtU
This prototype is for a program to run on your cell phone to find your friends. To do this they replace the entire outline of the prototype with every step they take into the program instead of having moving sections or replacing specific sections.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TbyXq3XHSc
This is another prototype for a application on our phone but to accomplish their prototype the have a cutout of their phone and the software simulation is scrolled along to change the different steps they go through to run the program.
My paper prototype was not very good compared to these videos I used mine more as a presentation to lead into my technology I was doing it on. My technology was elastic conductors made from carbon nanotubes which could have been a variety of things, such as stretchable electronics, bendable displays, smart fabric with antennas built in such as scuba gear to send out a gps signal, and also to create the sense of touch for robots with a fabric as its skin. My prototype I decided to do a bendable display much like that of the roll up laptop that was shown in front of the class I also tried to build a tripod, and was gonna say bendable displays could be made compact enough to carry that you could present anywhere without a projector and you could just set up your display and do your presentation. However, I got my tripod built but to get the screen to stay on the tripod after it has been rolled up was difficult, but I told my classmates my idea.
Sunday, January 29, 2012
Design of Design chp 4-5
pg39-- Chp 4-Requirements, Sin, and Contracts. Quotes from Pahl and Beitz, and James Garcia.
40-- A Horror Story- Introduction to a design goal they had to meet with redesigning a helicopter to make it across the Atlantic carrying a certain amount of equipment.
41-- Further discussion of how often requirements are drawn up from a board that does not have skewed requirements for a design but seem so far fetched they may jeopardize other parts of the design to achieve their requirements.
42-- Talks about the designer have to deal with pressing factors such as time, and a ever increasing number of layers of oversight to the project.
43-- Discusses the committees top-priority is at the very initial stages have project leaders who are well seasoned in the field to tailor the design requirements, and starts the discussion of Sin, and saying all the players in a project are honest and truthful and great in their fields.
44-- But although in a perfect world they would all be honest and truthful with great communication with everything done at fair prices for best available is wrong. Because people are greed lazy and prideful. Thus is why there is contracts.
45-- Gives ideas on what to consider for drawing up a contract.
46-- Wrapping up first the design-build process so the contractor can see what material is needed and how long it will take. Notes and References are listed.
47--Notes and References
48--Notes and References
49--Page intentionally left blank
50--Boehm's Spiral Model
51--Chp 5- What Are Better Design Process Models? and a quote from Nigel Cross and Kees Dorst
52-- By looking at the Waterfall Model in software engineering the author argues for the fact there will be a dominant model
53--Mahen, Poon, and Boulanger's Co-Evolution model is discussed. Model says that the understanding of the problem and the solution to the problem are both incrementally progressed to the final solution as the process moves forward.
54-- Further discusses the Co-Evolution model highlights the good points and what it is lacking ultimately ending with its not sufficient enough. Then the Raymond Bazaar model is introduced and that Linux was actually out of this model.
55-- How the bazaar model works and designer fixes a bug or creates something to meet a problem and it is freely given to the community to be integrated into the rest of the system. Strengths for the model are offered that it normally it is superior design in quality and when offered to the community the bugs are soon found.
56-- Talks about what variables are in place for the Bazaar model to work. Touching on some more detailed aspects of why the Linux system works so well.
57--Boehms Spiral model of 1988 for building software is discussed and is ultimately supported to be embraced and developed with adding contracting points.
58-- Summary for his arguments on Design process models from chapter 2-5
Dr. Min Kao
Dr. Kao graduated from UT with both his doctorate and masters in electrical engineering he went on to start Garmin with Gary Burrell. Kao relates to this class in both the design process and starting his own company Kao led the engineering team that created the first GPS system and shortly after him and Mr. Burrell create ProNav then renamed to Garmin to sell their GPS system, which now has wide variety of different products pertaining to GPS.
ABET Design
Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a decision-making process (often iterative), in which the basic science and mathematics and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. Among the fundamental elements of the design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation. The engineering design component of a curriculum must include most of the following features: development of student creativity, use of open-ended problems, development and use of modern design theory and methodology, formulation of design problem statements and specification, consideration of alternative solutions, feasibility considerations, production processes, concurrent engineering design, and detailed system description. Further it is essential to include a variety of realistic constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact."
Set back lines-
For when there are none specified for a particular zone are a minimum of 20 feet for front yard 5 feet for the side and 15 feet for the back yard.
New Technology
1. House that is fully energy independent and actually creates excess maybe not a new and revolutionary technology but is extremely important model for our future to become less dependent on fossil fuels.
http://www.gizmag.com/chip-house-solar-energy-xbox-kinect/21254/
2. Recon instruments is a variety of different instruments working together your goggles will display speed and altitude and other attributes as your skiing or whatever you may be doing. Its pretty cool they are displaying them in your goggles. I can see a variety of different uses for this technology. Such as gaming or military operations. http://www.gizmag.com/recon-instruments-action-camera-goggles/21243/
3. Graphene the thinnest known material most conductive and strongest has many potential purposes.
Allows only one layer of water through.http://www.gizmag.com/recon-instruments-action-camera-goggles/21243/
4. Elastic conductors have multiple uses for touch sensitive robots, smart fabric or bendable displays can be made from carbon nano tubes. http://www.gizmag.com/elastic-conductors-carbon-nanotubes/21235/
5. Human embryonic stem cell transplant improves vision. Was tested on legally blind people and helped improve their eye sight one could read 21 letter after could read 33 it could not only improve eyesight but also fight eye diseases. http://www.gizmag.com/retinal-stem-cell-transplant/21210/
pg39-- Chp 4-Requirements, Sin, and Contracts. Quotes from Pahl and Beitz, and James Garcia.
40-- A Horror Story- Introduction to a design goal they had to meet with redesigning a helicopter to make it across the Atlantic carrying a certain amount of equipment.
41-- Further discussion of how often requirements are drawn up from a board that does not have skewed requirements for a design but seem so far fetched they may jeopardize other parts of the design to achieve their requirements.
42-- Talks about the designer have to deal with pressing factors such as time, and a ever increasing number of layers of oversight to the project.
43-- Discusses the committees top-priority is at the very initial stages have project leaders who are well seasoned in the field to tailor the design requirements, and starts the discussion of Sin, and saying all the players in a project are honest and truthful and great in their fields.
44-- But although in a perfect world they would all be honest and truthful with great communication with everything done at fair prices for best available is wrong. Because people are greed lazy and prideful. Thus is why there is contracts.
45-- Gives ideas on what to consider for drawing up a contract.
46-- Wrapping up first the design-build process so the contractor can see what material is needed and how long it will take. Notes and References are listed.
47--Notes and References
48--Notes and References
49--Page intentionally left blank
50--Boehm's Spiral Model
51--Chp 5- What Are Better Design Process Models? and a quote from Nigel Cross and Kees Dorst
52-- By looking at the Waterfall Model in software engineering the author argues for the fact there will be a dominant model
53--Mahen, Poon, and Boulanger's Co-Evolution model is discussed. Model says that the understanding of the problem and the solution to the problem are both incrementally progressed to the final solution as the process moves forward.
54-- Further discusses the Co-Evolution model highlights the good points and what it is lacking ultimately ending with its not sufficient enough. Then the Raymond Bazaar model is introduced and that Linux was actually out of this model.
55-- How the bazaar model works and designer fixes a bug or creates something to meet a problem and it is freely given to the community to be integrated into the rest of the system. Strengths for the model are offered that it normally it is superior design in quality and when offered to the community the bugs are soon found.
56-- Talks about what variables are in place for the Bazaar model to work. Touching on some more detailed aspects of why the Linux system works so well.
57--Boehms Spiral model of 1988 for building software is discussed and is ultimately supported to be embraced and developed with adding contracting points.
58-- Summary for his arguments on Design process models from chapter 2-5
Dr. Min Kao
Dr. Kao graduated from UT with both his doctorate and masters in electrical engineering he went on to start Garmin with Gary Burrell. Kao relates to this class in both the design process and starting his own company Kao led the engineering team that created the first GPS system and shortly after him and Mr. Burrell create ProNav then renamed to Garmin to sell their GPS system, which now has wide variety of different products pertaining to GPS.
ABET Design
Engineering design is the process of devising a system, component, or process to meet desired needs. It is a decision-making process (often iterative), in which the basic science and mathematics and engineering sciences are applied to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective. Among the fundamental elements of the design process are the establishment of objectives and criteria, synthesis, analysis, construction, testing and evaluation. The engineering design component of a curriculum must include most of the following features: development of student creativity, use of open-ended problems, development and use of modern design theory and methodology, formulation of design problem statements and specification, consideration of alternative solutions, feasibility considerations, production processes, concurrent engineering design, and detailed system description. Further it is essential to include a variety of realistic constraints, such as economic factors, safety, reliability, aesthetics, ethics and social impact."
Marshmallow design- We devised a component to meet the desired need of a free standing structure to lift the marshmallow in attempt to be the highest possible. We talked about ideas of the structures we could build and after deciding on one we all agreed would work we started building the parts to be put together such as using two strands of spaghetti on the lower 2/3 of the structure to be stronger. Then we put them together.We did use a iterative process to gradually build our tower higher and higher as we tested the strength at each step, and adding braces to the weaker parts so they would hold up properly. We did have a sketch of the structure but it wasn't very detailed, we lacked in that aspect, and we improvised as we got further in the design process and encountered problems building it higher and higher.
Paper clip- In the paper clip design of pencil holder I did use a iterative process to get it to work but I had no idea how to begin and the only specification was that the pencil could not be touching the ground at any point. I lacked in using any math, maybe used basic science of how a structure will hold up the pencil by its shape. However, my design really had no plan or method to it and I eventually just got it to work after reshaping the paper clip and using trial and error.
Set back lines-
For when there are none specified for a particular zone are a minimum of 20 feet for front yard 5 feet for the side and 15 feet for the back yard.
New Technology
1. House that is fully energy independent and actually creates excess maybe not a new and revolutionary technology but is extremely important model for our future to become less dependent on fossil fuels.
http://www.gizmag.com/chip-house-solar-energy-xbox-kinect/21254/
2. Recon instruments is a variety of different instruments working together your goggles will display speed and altitude and other attributes as your skiing or whatever you may be doing. Its pretty cool they are displaying them in your goggles. I can see a variety of different uses for this technology. Such as gaming or military operations. http://www.gizmag.com/recon-instruments-action-camera-goggles/21243/
3. Graphene the thinnest known material most conductive and strongest has many potential purposes.
Allows only one layer of water through.http://www.gizmag.com/recon-instruments-action-camera-goggles/21243/
4. Elastic conductors have multiple uses for touch sensitive robots, smart fabric or bendable displays can be made from carbon nano tubes. http://www.gizmag.com/elastic-conductors-carbon-nanotubes/21235/
5. Human embryonic stem cell transplant improves vision. Was tested on legally blind people and helped improve their eye sight one could read 21 letter after could read 33 it could not only improve eyesight but also fight eye diseases. http://www.gizmag.com/retinal-stem-cell-transplant/21210/
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