The detail design phase

This is one of the SEED Curriculum for Design: Preparation Material for Design Teaching reports. These reports provide an integrated series of preparation material for design teaching. SEED (Sharing Experience in Engineering Design) is an organisation of teachers of design in tertiary education.

This document forms part of the SEED curriculum development series of publications and is principally intended for use by teachers and lecturers of engineering design in the preparation of teaching material for the topic of detail design. It addresses a strategy for the teaching of detail design rather than the specific procedures involved in the detail design of a product. The message it aims to present is equally applicable to mechanical, electrical, civil and other engineering disciplines. Consequently the term ‘product’ as used throughout the document should be interpreted as referring to buildings, processes, systems, circuits etc. as well as consumer and industrial artefacts. Similarly, ‘manufacturing’ should be interpreted as also referring to construction.

The report provides an introduction, topic definition, rationale, educational objectives and chapters on when taught, detail design curriculum, teaching and assessment and a bibliography and references.

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Link: http://www.bath.ac.uk/idmrc/themes/projects/delores/co-design-website/teachers/curriculum/detail_design/detaildesignhome.html
Author: Bill Ion; Bill McCracken
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