How to write a product design specification

This is one of the SEED curriculum engineering design guides. SEED (Sharing Experience in Engineering Design) is an organisation of teachers of design in tertiary education.

This guide explains what product design specifications (PDS) are, why they are important, and how to write one. The guide includes links to examples from a PDS written by a group of students who were specifying the design of a lawn-edge trimmer. This is a typical first-time PDS, not an ideal model. The students missed out several sections, and did not put figures on as many of their specifications as they should have done. This guide was commissioned by the SEED Curriculum Development Editorial Board.

[Description and screenshot taken from the SEED Curriculum for Engineering Design page for this guide. (c) The Design Society used under the terms of their (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) license.]

Link: http://www.bath.ac.uk/idmrc/themes/projects/delores/co-design-website/dpg/pds/pdshome.htm
Author: Stuart Pugh; Andrew Gilling
License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/
Rights: Copyright 2011 The Design Society - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. See http://www.bath.ac.uk/idmrc/themes/projects/delores/co-design-website/teachers/curriculum/about.html