August 2014
Intermediate to advanced
862 pages
26h 35m
English
Tim Wescott, IEEE Senior Member, Owner, Wescott Design Services
This chapter shows you how to design the whole system by starting with goals in plain language that a business person might use. Then it proceeds through detailed system design by the team, a process that avoids either redundant effort or missing pieces.
Areas of particular focus in this chapter include:
• how to communicate effectively with non-engineering personnel,
• how to partition a large system into manageable subsystems,
• how to partition system requirements into requirements for individual disciplines, i.e. software, electronics, and mechanical engineering, and
• how to control costs for projects of various sizes and production ...
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