ENGR 100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Decision Matrix
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Navigating, expanding, and contracting design spaces (section 7. 2) Design space is an imaginary space of design alternatives, a space containing all the potential solutions to the design problem. Design space can be large or small. A large space suggests that the design problem at hand is: a design with a large number of design alternatives and/or, a design with a large number of design variables. Tools for generating design spaces and for generating within such spaces design alternatives include: morphological chart (7. 1. 1, the 6-3-5 method (7. 1. 3, the c-sketch method (7. 1. 4, the gallery method (7. 1. 5) In a morph chart, the functions and key features are listen in the left most column. The entries in this column should be of a manageable size and at the same level. For each entry of functions or key features, a row of means to realize the functions or feature will be generated. Design alternatives are then assembled by selecting one means from each row.
