TY - CHAP
T1 - Design of Large Engineering Systems
AU - Park, Gyung Jin
AU - Farid, Amro M.
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021.
PY - 2021/1/1
Y1 - 2021/1/1
N2 - One defining characteristic of twenty-first-century engineering challenges is the breadth of their scope. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has identified 14 “game-changing goals.” At first glance, each of these aspirational engineering goals is so large and complex in its own right that it might seem entirely intractable. Fortunately, design science provides a continually advancing perspective built upon a meta-problem-solving skill set. This chapter introduces the design engineer to the world of large complex systems from an Axiomatic Design (AD) perspective. In particular, the chapter focuses on two critical “systems-thinking” design skills that help the designer manage the inherent and abstract complexity of large systems. They are (1) system decomposition and (2) the allocation of function to form. The chapter also practically demonstrates these design skills in several design stories and case studies. The chapter discusses why and how these design skills are used differently when the system has a fixed versus flexible structure. Finally, the chapter concludes with several avenues for further investigation.
AB - One defining characteristic of twenty-first-century engineering challenges is the breadth of their scope. The National Academy of Engineering (NAE) has identified 14 “game-changing goals.” At first glance, each of these aspirational engineering goals is so large and complex in its own right that it might seem entirely intractable. Fortunately, design science provides a continually advancing perspective built upon a meta-problem-solving skill set. This chapter introduces the design engineer to the world of large complex systems from an Axiomatic Design (AD) perspective. In particular, the chapter focuses on two critical “systems-thinking” design skills that help the designer manage the inherent and abstract complexity of large systems. They are (1) system decomposition and (2) the allocation of function to form. The chapter also practically demonstrates these design skills in several design stories and case studies. The chapter discusses why and how these design skills are used differently when the system has a fixed versus flexible structure. Finally, the chapter concludes with several avenues for further investigation.
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-030-49232-8_14
DO - 10.1007/978-3-030-49232-8_14
M3 - Chapter
AN - SCOPUS:85141380990
SN - 9783030492311
SP - 367
EP - 415
BT - Design Engineering and Science
ER -