Today in History - November 16, 1965 - Walt Disney launches the EPCOT Center: Prototype Community of Tomorrow. As Walt Disney originally envisioned it, the EPCOT Center (which stood for “Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow”) would be the key component of Walt Disney World - a working “city of the future” with residential, shopping and [...]

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Today in History - November 13, 1913 - Mary Phelps Jacobs invents modern bra. After tiring of barbaric corsets with whaleback bones and steel rods, Mary Phelps Jacobs, a New York socialite, took two silk handkerchiefs and some pink ribbon and fashioned herself the very first backless bra.  She used the natural bias of the [...]

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Today in History - November 3, 1900 - first U.S. automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden, NYC. Columbia completed 1500 electric- and gasoline-powered vehicles in Hartford, Connecticut during the year and Locomobile of Bridgeport built 750 steamers, representing the top two most successful automobile companies at the time in terms of number of sales. [...]

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Clive Dym and Patrick Little
2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons

Table of Contents
1. Engineering Design
2. The Design Process
3. Understanding the Client’s Problem
4. Functions and Specifications
5. Finding Answers to the Problem
6. Reporting the Outcome
7. Managing [...]

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Clive Dym and Patrick Little
2nd edition, John Wiley & Sons
Table of Contents

1. Engineering Design
1.1. Where and When Do Engineers Design
(engineer, designer, client, user, detailed design, conceptual design, design teams)
1.2. Defining Engineering Design
1.2.1. Our Definition of Engineering Design
(artifacts, form, function, performance parameters, attributes, [...]

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