Design and Brainstorming (Include detailed sketches and defenses of good design: anticipate a problem and explain your design/mechanism to overcome it)

1.- Design a method for managing the flow of two-way railroad traffic on a one-track system. The single line of track has a parallel spur track located every five kilometers. These parallel sections of track allow one train to wait as another passes by in the opposite direction.

Estimation (you should do it without asking any body for an exact number)

2.- Estimate the cost of allowing a gasoline-powered car to idle for 10 minutes. Include and explain all calculations.

Project management

3.- Suppose you are asked to start a company to write software tools for building homes on the Web. Reason how long does it take you to have it actually running, and a detailed time line that would make it possible.

Computer as a tool

4. Provide two specific situations to illustrate how a computer can be used as a design tool using specific examples of programs or codes made so far

Ergonomics (DCE Chapter 5)/LabVIEW

5.- Improve the ergonomic design of the LabVIEW VI to plot any function between 0 and 4 using 101 or 5 points (CW# 10 a) by modifying it to allow plotting of any function in an interval specified by the user and using a number of points as specified by the user. Include copies of the front panel/diagrams of the poor and ergonomically improved VI’s with your name in a text box, in your Word file.