Intellectual Property or Concept Generation

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Intellectual Property orConcept Generation

• Fundamentals of Engineering Design
• Chapter 6
• (skip Chapter 5)

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Methods of Design

• By selection of new components.
• Using a better or faster chip.
• By configuration tweaking.
• Moving the same components around.
• By tweaking the design parameters.
• Difference between the extra large and the family
  size.
• Implementing an original concept
• A fundamental departure from the past.

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Creative Thinking

• An Original Concept treats design as a creative
  process.
• You have to look at the goal
• then imagine/question how to get there.
• Try to visualize the steps.
• Write the sequence down or
• Draw a Functional Block Diagram (FBD)
• (see page 42)

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The Creative Process

• Utilize your present knowledge.
• A normal combination.
• A unique combination.
• Leave blank what you dont know.
• This becomes the challenge.
• Your questions probe the unknown.
• Define the limits around the unknown.
• List what you know vs. what you dont.
• Look for the path to knowledge into the unknown.

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The Creative Process

• Tools you can use
• Focus on technical information by
• Reread books, periodicals, journals, magazines
  with this problem in mind.
• Attend conferences, check the library, look up
  patents, read up on standards.
• NETWORKfind out whose working on the same
  problem and meet them.
• (Review Gathering Information PowerPoint
  Presentation)

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Applying the Creative Process

• Imagine yourself lost in a forest following a
  path and you come to a fork in the road...
• The work of the creative process is testing your
  (educated) guesses or trials.
• A trial is an attempt to answer a question.
• Guesses become solutions that lead to better
  questions narrowing the focus.
• The application or work is the many attempts you
  make.
• This is what R D is all about.

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Models of the Creative Process

• Fabun Model
• Desire
• Preparation
• Manipulation
• Incubation
• Intimation
• Illumination
• Verification

• Prof. Johnsons Pathway
• Need
• Focus
• Utilize your knowledge base
• Draw the FBD
• Think
• Find the path/do the RD
• Solution

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Lets Focus

• Were on a project, to make a remote control
  soldering iron.
• Weve learned a lot about how irons heat up and
  how to turn an AC relay on and off.
• We need to put everything together and design the
  software portion of the design.

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Design Using Object-Oriented Software

• Going to use HPVee because its what we know.
• Weve reviewed briefly the need, our focus, and
  our knowledge base.
• Now, lets draw what we know as a FBD.

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Our Knowledge Limit
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Defining the unknown

• What we know
• How to get readings into the computer.
• We know the temperature.
• Familiar with some aspects of HPVee.
• Have handouts.

• What we dont know
• How to get HPVee to turn on and off a relay.
• How the software makes the decision to operate
  the Power Supply.

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Your Next Step

• Start the HPVee design by adding some objects in.
• Figure out how the Instrument Manager in HPVee
  talks to the Power Supply.
• Check for objects in HPVee that would evaluate
  the temperature and make a decision.
• (How would you do this task in C?)

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In Summary

• Lab 9 is for you to design the software that will
  allow an operator to control a soldering iron and
  monitor it temperature.
• The iron stays right around 300 degrees
  Fahrenheit, plus or minus 10 degrees.
• Youve this week to tackle the problem before we
  begin the next phase
• Publishing a user manual.
• Writing a technical manual.