My research paper is important because it outlines how communication plays an enormous role in the engineering design process. It shows that engineers use much more writing and visual communication than most people realize. Most engineers take all of it for granted because they don't think of it as writing. When in reality it is exactly that. From the start of the start of the design process, engineers need to define their problem that they have to solve and research about previous designs or break it down into simpler pieces. In order to keep track of all that information they write a lot of it down. Engineers will also use a house of quality to translate consumer requirements and constraints into engineering constraints. They think of it as a function of something that they can control. For example, low weight is a function of density and amount of material. Engineers can control both of those functions in the design process. Later on, mostly during the analysis part, engineers will do risk management and effects analysis on the object that they made. They record where it could fail, how it could fail and how spectacular it will fail. They do this to keep the product safe and to minimize future problems that might occur with the thing that they are making. So overall, this paper will help me as well as future students to understand what it is they will be learning and using in practice.
One of the main problems I am having with my research paper is that I can not seem to find much in the way of explaining why they do the certain documentation that they do. There is quite a bit on how it is used but not much on where it originated or why it is this way.
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