What is Designing: Definition and 614 Discussions

A design is a plan or specification for the construction of an object or system or for the implementation of an activity or process, or the result of that plan or specification in the form of a prototype, product or process. The verb to design expresses the process of developing a design. In some cases, the direct construction of an object without an explicit prior plan (such as in craftwork, some engineering, coding, and graphic design) may also be considered to be a design activity. The design usually has to satisfy certain goals and constraints, may take into account aesthetic, functional, economic, or socio-political considerations, and is expected to interact with a certain environment. Major examples of designs include architectural blueprints, engineering drawings, business processes, circuit diagrams, and sewing patterns.The person who produces a design is called a designer, which is a term generally used for people who work professionally in one of the various design areas—usually specifying which area is being dealt with (such as a fashion designer, product designer, web designer or interior designer), but also others such as architects and engineers. A designer's sequence of activities is called a design process, possibly using design methods. The process of creating a design can be brief (a quick sketch) or lengthy and complicated, involving considerable research, negotiation, reflection, modeling, interactive adjustment and re-design.

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  1. W

    Designing a linear DC power supply

    Homework Statement Design, giving the necessary ratings and characteristics necessary for the transformer, bridge rectifier, reservoir capacitor and regulator, a 12 V, 2 A regulated power supply. Also identify any heat sink requirements. The available mains supply is 230 V ±10% @ 50 Hz...
  2. S

    I Steps in designing a rocket

    110kg sounding rocket that runs on apcp im trying to understand the steps to building this rocket what equations do i use to find nozzle parameters and estimated burn time etc. initial surface area for the fuel block is 5020cm^2 burn rate is .6 to 1.2mm a second fuel weight is 100kg gamma for...
  3. G

    Help designing a bridge rectifier

    this is my very first project, and we haven't even tackled this lesson yet, but the time period is really short so i want to start ahead as early as i can and read some reference books about it. my proffessor wants me to design an AC to DC power supply with the specifications of ripple 5%, DC...
  4. B

    Automotive Designing a Poka-Yoke for Flat Marks on Rocker Arm Bearing

    I am a quality control engineer in an automotive parts manufacturing company. One of our products is a rocker arm bearing which is essentially a cam follower. The OD and ID of the bearing is ground using CBN grinding wheels. The ID contains cylindrical rolling needles. Recently we have received...
  5. P

    MATLAB Simulink: designing a 2nd order sliding controller

    Hi, I've had obtained a mathematical model for the slip controller issue. As you see I have the diffequation for the slip. and the input that force the system to zero error is provided as well. Now it's time to implement it in simulink or matlab. I took a look at the example provided on...
  6. B

    Other Help designing self-taught astrophysics curriculum

    Hey everyone, I'm new here and I hope I can get some help with this! I recently decided to start the no doubt long and painful process of teaching myself physics in order to pursue a lifelong obsession of mine, that being outer space / planetary science. I don't seek a formal education in this...
  7. K

    Electronics designing for 1970s automotive OBD

    Hi to all! I´m Kai from Finland and me and my step dad are working to make an OBD system for 1970´s Chrysler vehicles. The company itself made one during the era and we would like to have same kind of system, only with 2010 equipment. (so no fridge- size computer for my shop) We´ve solved most...
  8. N

    MATLAB I with matlab designing a steady state feedback H2 control system

    Hi everyone. I'm designing a steady state feedback H2 control system. Actually, my major is tribology and I have no experience in designing control system. So it is really big problem for me. Anyway, this is my simple model of tribometer which applies normal load on the surface. (is it...
  9. olgkd123

    Designing a rectangular vacuum chamber -- Help please

    Hello everyone! I want to design a rectangle vacuum chamber (12x12x72) out of 1/2 steel. I would be welding the sides together to form a seal. Would this work? any suggestions on what I could do? Thx! (I not great at this stuff so your help is much appreciated!)
  10. N

    Help in designing electromagnets

    Hi all, First post, be gentle... I'm trying to build a system based on the MIT Actuated Workbench. They used electromagnets with the following spec: 1.9cm (0.75”) diameter x 3.8cm (1.5”) length, wound with 32-gauge copper wire with a total length resistance of 120-122 ohms, with no metal...
  11. Antraxius

    Designing a planocovex PMMA lens

    As an electrical engineer, I am an amateur on optics, but I really could use some help. I am making a lens of PMMA, 2D. To 'convert' a rotary movement into a sweep. The lens needs to be 120mm long, with its focus at a max distance of 80mm the light traveling out of the lens needs to be parallel...
  12. J

    How Many Bits Per Sample for a 10dB SNR with a Uniform Quantiser?

    Homework Statement [/B] An analogue signal is uniformly distributed from -4,4. Design a uniform quantiser with minimum number of bits per sample, such that the signal to quantisation noise is at least 10dB. How many bits are required per sample? What is the mean square (quantisation) error for...
  13. hdp12

    Designing a Mechanism to Cut Aluminum Bar: Help Needed!

    Hi there So we have a group design project in my mechanical systems 2 class and it basically goes as follows: design a mechanism to cut a half inch aluminum bar in half using a standard hacksaw blade and 4 AA batteries. You have to use a motor w/ input > 5000 rpm for the 'main' component we...
  14. H

    Designing Haunch for Cantilever Beam in BS 8110

    Hi guys, how do I design the haunch for the cantilever beam? The slab area is relatively small, with 125thk ( 4.39m x 1190m ). I've looked through everywhere but I can't find on how to design the haunch. I'm using BS 8110. Thanks.
  15. Kara386

    I Designing Cryostats: Finding Heat Input for 50ml/hr Boil Off Rate

    I'm looking into how cryostats are designed. There's an absolute wealth of information on how they work; less about how design choices are made. So I'm giving it a go myself, but I'm stuck on pretty much the first hurdle. I'd like the cryostat to have a boil off rate of helium of ##50##ml/hr...
  16. C

    Designing a NAND Gate Logic Circuit

    Homework Statement Draw the logic circuit to represent the following Boolean expression using only NAND gates: Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution Is this correct? Thanks
  17. H

    Rotational Dynamics Designing a Propeller Velocity/Acceleration

    Homework Statement You are asked to design an airplane propleller to turn at 2400 rpm. The forward airspeed of the plane is to be 75.0 m/s, and the speed of the tips of the propeller blades through the air must not exceed 270 m/s. What is the maximum radius the propeller can have? With this...
  18. W

    Introducing myself womankirsty

    I love mechanical design engineering I think I'd love quantum physics when I get into it would like to completely reinvent how to produce radio waves by looking at the breakthroughs that created that technology
  19. J

    Help with designing an investigation

    Homework Statement We have been asked to design an investigation into transformers. The equipment list given is: coils of wire, iron core, ammeter, voltmeter, loudspeaker, signal generator and an oscilloscope. Homework EquationsThe Attempt at a Solution I know that you could investigate how...
  20. M

    Egg Drop Challenge: Designing a Way to Keep an Egg Intact

    For my physics assignment we have to design and test a way to allow an egg to fall from a three storey building and not crack. The only requirments are the egg must be visible in atleast one place and the smallest design wins. I tried making a crumple area and then protecting the egg with...
  21. W

    Programs Weapons Engineering: best minors for tank designing

    I plan on going into the weapons engineering field and I want to design tanks. Either the armor or the gun. Both fascinate me and I was just wondering, what is the best minor to mechanical engineering for both career options? Materials for the armor and electronic for the gun?
  22. MaxKang

    Designing an Electric Aircraft: Testing Motor+Airfoil Configurations

    Hello, me and other engineering students at my university are designing an electric aircraft and we are hoping to implement the technology that NASA is currently working on, http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-electric-research-plane-gets-x-number-new-name Basically how it works is you have...
  23. H

    Help designing bearing influenced by spring

    Hello Guys, I'm building a vertical wave machine. I have a big bearing [2] (more like an eccentric) which is rotating by an electric motor with a constant speed of 0.359 rad/sec. When 3/4 of the bearing touches bearing [1] it supposed to rotate it a 1/4 turn, which as a result the ladder with...
  24. D

    Designing a world based of the four Greek elements

    Hey, didn't know where to turn and thought this might be a good start. I've been designing a world for the last six years based of the four Greek elements; earth, air, water, fire and H'teal. (Transfer and absorption of biological energy, life and death combined) The main three bad and good...
  25. X

    Designing butterworth filter of Nth order

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  26. D

    Designing a 5L Football for the MFL

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  27. Graham Chivers

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  28. Eddie714

    I in designing a single speed reduction gearbox

    Hello, i am a junior mechanical engineering student and i was given the task of designing (on paper) a gearbox. I chose to design a worm gear single speed reduction gearbox. I know the basics of what composes it which are the worm, worm gear, input and output shaft bearings and the housing the...
  29. R

    Designing a driven spring mass system for school project

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  30. Jadaav

    Designing a reflection sundial for the southern hemisphere

    Hello, My aim is to build a small reflecting sundial as designed by Sir Isaac Newton. I found from a website that it consists of a ceiling and a small mirror. What I want to know is how it works, the concepts behind it and how to build one. It's for an undergraduate project that I've got...
  31. M

    Designing a Line-Out Amplifier for TRS/phone connector

    I have a signal that comes from a computer of phone line-out and I would like to amplify or apply analog filters. I am not sure what considerations I need to make in the design. What type of load should I present to the phone? What are the signal levels? Input or output impedance? Is there a DC...
  32. S

    Designing a Tilting Mechanism for Air Hose, Locking Methods and Resources

    Hello, I want to design a mechanism for tilting an air hose (not more than 10 kg) to a desired angle (anywhere between 0 and 90 degrees depending on operating conditions) and holding it there. I've tried googling this up but just can;t find what I was lookin for. Then I searched for...
  33. M

    Can I Design a Capacitor Bank without Any Previous Knowledge or Resources?

    im stuck on figuring out how to design a capacitor bank i have nothing to start with, its part of a project, and i want its input to be 12v (storage). im trying to google capacitor banks and trying to simulate my own using pspice but i keep getting floating nodes and missing resistors or...
  34. DHF

    Writing: Input Wanted Designing a space ship and with the dust shield

    Hello everyone, I am designing a ship for my sci fi story and I need input regarding the shield. I am trying to make my story as hard sci fi as I can get away with. The story takes place a few centuries from now and details the first expedition to Alpha Centuri. The ship will have a cruising...
  35. majid hussain

    Designing Aircraft Winglets: Blended Winglet Benefits

    I would like to know about efficient designing of winglet of an aircraft..mostly concentrated on blended winglet. Also how stability and maneuvering effect the aircraft having blended winglet
  36. siansoft

    Designing a Pneumatic Filling Machine

    Hi All I'm designing a pneumatic filling machine and I'm looking for this parts in the photo attached so please can anyone knows where can i found it? Thank You
  37. K

    Designing bridge not perpendicular with ground

    I was wondering how to approach building a bridge which must lie across to points of differing points (one end is elevated 5 cm off the ground), meaning the bridge lies at an angle across a 35cm expanse. How would you calculate the forces exerted on each member if the bridge does not lie...
  38. N

    Design Aircraft: Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA

    Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, and CATIA. I don't know which one are better to design an aircraft ? Which one should i pick for a beginner ?
  39. Dr. Octavious

    Designing a Fusion Reactor: Calculating Plasma Currents

    Hello all, This might sound very optimistic for a project but I want to design a thermonuclear fusion reactor. Does anyone know how I can calculate the required plasma current I need in order to start a thermonuclear fusion process? I am using a mixture of Deuterium-Tritium gas. Thanks!
  40. F

    Designing an interrupt switch or circuit

    I need to trigger an electric imp to wake from deep sleep on the event that a liquid level sensor is exposed to water and send an alert to a user. This device periodically wakes up out of a deep sleep state and connects to a server to log sensor data (temp, humidity, light, water level in the...
  41. O

    Book for designing low voltage switches

    Hi, Can anybody suggest a good book that discuss low voltage electrical switching hardware like circuit breakers, motor starters, automatic tranfser switches..etc? I can't seem to find any book that focuses on this.
  42. W

    Designing ERDs within DDL (Create Table Statement)

    Hi again, just curious as to whether it is possible to use DDL (Data definition, i.e., non-GUI ); more specifically to add something to the usual create table statements to express the relation between tables, i.e., these tables being either in 1:1, M:1 or M:N relation (so that a new, bridge...
  43. B

    Designing a Mars-Ready RC Plane: What Factors Must Be Considered?

    So, I'm building an rc plane for school that has to theoretically be able to fly on Mars. What differences/limitations are there compared to designing a regular remote controlled plane? This is for a terraformation project, so at this point Mars would have an atmospheric pressure of 50kPa.
  44. loststudent123

    Designing Shafts to Withstand Shear Stress

    Homework Statement A rule often used in shaft design states that the angle of twist shall not exceed 1° on a length equal to 20 diameters. What stress in the material does this imply if the modulus of rigidity is equal to 80 × 103 N/mm2 ? Homework Equations T/J=Gθ/L=τ/r J=π?32(D^4-d^4)[/B]...
  45. R

    Designing F1 Car w/ Duke 390 Engine: Sprocket Dimensions

    hello, I'm designng a f1 car,,, we are using a duke 390 engine...we are using a chain differential... now I'm trying to make the sprockets. to make this sprockets i need to know its dimensions.. that is sprocket teeth diameter width etc... so, I'm very much confussed with it. how to get this...
  46. W

    Help designing an n-body gravity simulator in Python

    Hi everyone: I wanted to design a 2-dimensional gravity simulator as part of a larger research project. I wrote it in Python using numpy to store positions, velocities, and accelerations, and matplotlib to display the trajectories; code is available upon request. In order to solve the problem...
  47. G

    Design a Go Kart - Step-by-Step Guide for Beginners

    Hi, i am a student of bachelors of mechanical engg. (2nd year). I want to build a go cart. But i don't know the basics. I don't know a thing about automobiles. I am learning the catia software for designing. But i don't know what kind of "calculations for go cart" must be required to design the...
  48. A

    Help designing a music visualizer for a 12x12 LED screen

    I am working in a group for designing a LED interactive Screen. My part of the project is the design of the music visualization system. I am new in this area, but I know I need to use some op-amps to filter the input signal from the mp3 player. Could anyone give me any suggestions on how to...
  49. S

    Designing House Wiring & Digital Diagram App

    I want guideline to design house wiring. Also need an application by which the design diagram can be digitized.
  50. nunuwishnu

    What is the step for designing a 3 Phase Inverter?

    I have troubles for designing a 3 phase inverter, and I cannot find the formula everywhere...
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