ENED Study Guide
Design Thinking: innovation that allows you to design solutions for end users with a single
problem in mind
Design Process: A tool to help guide engineers and technologists navigate the process
of creation and avoid issues that can lead to disasters
Major Steps: empathize, define, ideate, prototype,
test, implement) in the design process
A design process is important because it helps guide an engineer on the correct path to tackling a
problem while helping them know when to revise their prototype, too.
The customer helps guide the engineer with the desires they have for the product which in turns
allows the engineer to mold the product to their liking.
Criteria: What it needs to do. Specifications require details and numbers
Prototyping helps create a testable product that you can make iterations to throughout the process
Goals, criteria, specifications help guide the design process and shape the prototype into the end
product
A code of ethics a guide of principles designed to help professionals conduct business honestly
and with integrity.
Academic misconduct for UC: Notified of it, scheduled a meeting, discuss step moving forward and
schedule a hearing ASAP
Examples of ethics: Don’t aid or abet individuals, don’t share test answers, don’t use external devices
to seek answers to academic material
Hold the safety of the public and welfare paramount
Perform services only in area of competence
Different ethics approaches:
Utilitarian approach: Which option will produce the most good and do the least harm
Rights Approach: Which option best respects the rights of all who have a stake
The Justice Approach: Which option treats people as I want to be treated?
The Ethic of Care Approach: Which option is best for those most in need?
The Virtue Approach: Which option leads me to act as a respectable person?
Fundamental Canons of NSPE:
Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public
Perform services only in areas of competence
Issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner
Act for each or client as faithful agents or trustees
Avoid deceptive acts
Conduct themselves honorably, responsibly, ethically, lawfully, so as to enhance the honor reputation
and usefulness of the profession
Work breakdown structure definition: visual, hierarchical and deliverable-oriented deconstruction
of a project.
Precedence Network definition: method of constructing a project schedule
network diagram that uses boxes, to represent activities and connects
them with arrows that show the dependencies.
Critical Path Method: route in the precedence network that takes the
least amount of time
1. Gannt Chart: a chart in which a series of horizontal lines shows the amount of work done or
production completed in certain periods of time in relation to the amount planned for those
periods.
Function block diagram: a block diagram that describes the functions and interrelationships of
a system.
--Helps show the inputs, processes, and outputs of a device or product
Team: a group of people who perform interdependent tasks to work toward accomplishing a
common mission or specific objective.
Group: a number of individuals assembled together or having some unifying relationship
Do you remember all the shapes in the flowchart??