Design and Brainstorming: Reverse Engineering

1.- Choose a device you find around (at home, at school, on the bus, train, in the supermarket, etc.) describe it in sufficient details with a sketch, then pinpoint a flaw design or one that can be improved, explain the reason, and how would you improve it.

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.- Prepare a one page proposal to get funding of $40,000 to do an engineering project of your choice. Include title, overview, budget with justification, staffing with justification, and references

Computer as a tool

4. Explain two specific situations on how a computer can be used as a design tool using specific examples of programs or codes made so far (a) LabVIEW VI in HW #4 problem 2 (big electrical circuit); (b) LabVIEW VI in CW #8 (time of flight)

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# 8) 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 and block diagrams of the poor and ergonomically improved VI’s with your name in a text box, in your Word file.


Not ergonomic	Ergonomic