Origins of Requirement Development Skills in Engineering Undergraduates: Students’ Initial Thinking and Use in Engineering Decisions
Andrew Olewnik,
Vanessa Svihla,
William Wild
Abstract:A key challenge in engineering design problem framing is defining requirements and metrics. This is difficult, in part, because engineers must make decisions about how to treat qualitative and subjective issues, like stakeholder preferences, about how to prioritize different requirements, and about how to maintain tentativeness and ill-structuredness in the solution space. And this is made more challenging in light of the function of requirements in other types of engineering problems, like feasibility analysi… Show more
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