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ESD.02 Essentials of Engineering Lecture Notes

Leaders and Community

The most critical things to achieve are often the hardest to measure.

What Exemplifies Community?
  friendship           }
    people address each other by name
  sense of belonging   }->artifacts -> outcomes and processes
  lot of communication }
  common activities    }
    people are around,
    interacting with each other
    working on homework together
  common identify      }
    totems (T-shirt)


Levels of Systems
How do the systems affect each other?

/|\
somewhat less visible
 |    _______________
 |    \             /  society
 |     -------------
 |      \         /   university
 |       ---------
 |        \     /     housing system
 |        -------
visible  (       )    here, physical environment
 |        -------
 |        /     \     individual
 |        -------
 |       /       \    beliefs, experiences, genetics
 |       ---------    asssumption, spiritual
 |      /         \
 |     -------------
much less visible
\|/

look at interfaces between levels of abstraction
We tend to start a level where we have control

Onion Model

flow down -> objectives, needs, requirements, specifications
flow up -> constraints, tolerances, conflicts, constraints


Follow-up:
Define Term Project Problem as a Team (Assignment 4)