Design Project Planning: A Practical Guide for Beginners

This book demonstrates the relationship between thought processes and the resulting influences on design disciplines. The aim of this book is to show how good project management enhances the flow of creative ideas and accelerates the design study proces. It concentrates throughout on basic design concepts of interest to all potential engineering design activities and contributes to the development of style in a practical fashion. It explains Golden Rules of good engineering design practice and provides a simple introduction to basic design studies. It demonstrates the vital contribution to design made by prototype models and gives examples of useful design data and project specifications in the form of Data Sheets.