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After studying this chapter, you should be able to:
Understand the phases of the engineering design process.
Understand the cost impact of design errors.
Gain familiarity with alternate engineering design approaches.
Understand the difference between design verification and validation.
Evaluate a design with the use of a test verification matrix.
Implement the engineering design process with your team.
Engineering is the art of organizing and directing men and controlling the forces and materials of nature for the benefit of the human race.—Henry G. Stott
In mathematics you don't understand things, you just get used to them.—John von Neumann
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Hoffman, H.F. (2014). Project Development. In: The Engineering Capstone Course. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-05897-9_5
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