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The engineering design process typically entails the construction of a description of an artefact that satisfies a formal (in most cases) functional specification, meets certain performance requirements and resource constraints; is realisable in a target technology; satisfies one or more criteria, for instance manufacturability, reliability, safety and testability; and, more recently, environmental friendliness. The common perception of engineering design is often taken as that of converting a need - expressed as an abstract concept in terms of general functionality - into a product fulfilling that need, and its process involving the mapping of a specified function onto a realisable physical structure - the designed product.
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Bracewell, R.H. et al. (1996). Integrated Platform for AI Support of Complex Design (Part I): Rapid Development of Schemes from First Principles. In: Sharpe, J.E.E. (eds) AI System Support for Conceptual Design. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1475-8_11
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