Activities for Lecture 8
- Review and discussion of projects for ME 492 and ME 493
- Defining engineering specifications for a design project.
Reading
Read Chapter 4 in the textbook by Mattson and Sorenson. Focus on two key aspects of Opportunity Development
- Developing market requirements (previous lecture)
- Performance Measures (this lecture)
The following sections from part 2 of the textbook describe tools for relating performance measures to market requirements
- Quality function deployment, pp. 276-277
- Requirements matrix, pp. 284-287
Additional reference materials
- Lecture slides on performance measures/engineering requirements.
- Excel sheet list of Customer needs developed during class
Defining Engineering Specifications
In week 8 we build upon the list of Customer (or Market) Needs to develop a list of Engineering Specifications. This work produces a mapping of customer needs to engineering specifications, which is a major outcome from the Opportunity Development phase