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Design Evaluation Report

Activity: The purpose of the design evaluation report is to determine how well you understand the process of creating a conceptual design based on the requirement specifications provided by a client, evaluating the conceptual designs against a set of criteria and constraints, and choosing the best one for implementation at the client's site. Since your team must provide the best solution, keeping in mind who the ultimate client is and not a solution for someone living in Perth, it is important to know if you obtain the capability of evaluating a concept independently from your teammates.

INTRODUCTION:

It is always a mystery as to how original designs come about. Most people think that the solutions to the hardest problems are birthed by companies in board rooms or in cubicles, where the employee sits for hours on end pondering over the problem until the solution jumps out. And when that happens, it becomes obvious that the solution proposed must be the next step in the company's progression to becoming better. However, this is not really how it works.

In most cases, great ideas that result in amazing solutions for large problems are not birthed in the office but instead while relaxing at a coffee shop, exercising, walking around, or just talking to your friends. These ideas are then discussed and debated, and sometimes pitched using the back of a napkin, bar coaster, or used envelope. Then once it is out in the open, it is refined to the point where a final design can be visualized, refined, and pitched to the client. As shown in lecture, this method of creating and pitching a conceptual design has birthed companies such as Xerox and Southwest Airlines. It is also constantly used by CEOs of companies, such as Richard Branson of Virgin Airlines, or in companies known for innovation such as Google, as a means of coming up with new ideas to further the company's potential.

It is this method that is an essential skill to the engineer. Top rated engineers are not those who are only great in their analytic abilities, but those who are able to envision a future with solutions to today's problems, be creative in the solutions, and able to discuss and pitch their ideas to those who are in and not in their field. It has been said that the most important man in the room at an engineering meeting is not the head engineer, but rather the CFO (chief financial officer) since if he is not convinced that the project is worthwhile to invest in, he will not release the funds for the project. And if that happens, then nothing moves forward.

In this phase of the design process, you will be given the opportunity to create a conceptual design that is a possible solution to the problem that your group is facing, describe the conceptual design using words and diagrams so that your project manager will be able to fully understand your conceptual design and how it possibly solves the problem, and then evaluate the design against a design criteria to see how it matches with what is expected from the solution.

REPORT FORMAT

The Design Evaluation Report will be marked out of 100 marks and will be 35% of your overall percentage marks for the unit. It will basically describe and evaluate a proposed conceptual design as a possible solution to your group's problem. As a result, the structure of your report should be:
• Cover
• Executive Summary
• Contents Page
• Introduction
• Conceptual Design
• Evaluation of Conceptual Deign
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendix
o Individual Reflection Below is a description of each part.
• Cover Page
A page with:
• Project, unit and Curtin logo present,
• Author, student ID, company name and date of submission
• A relevant picture relating to this submission

Executive summary
This section should include briefly the purpose of this report, problem being addressed, design criteria used in the report, score obtained by the conceptual design and the main reasons why it was given that score. The page limit is 3 pages and the word limit is 1000 words.