Date of Award
5-2012
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Legacy Department
Mechanical Engineering
Committee Chair/Advisor
Mocko, Gregory M
Committee Member
Summers , Joshua D
Committee Member
Fadel , Georges M
Abstract
Requirements are an essential element to engineering design as they are used to focus idea generation during conceptual design, provide criteria for decision making during concept selection, and verify the chosen concept fulfills product needs. Because they are essential to the entire design process, great emphasis needs to be put on ensuring that they are correct. This research focuses on a value-based methodology useful for challenging and validating established requirements. A case study was conducted using this process on a project involving the design of a vehicle seat. This case study shows that this approach provides more persuasive evidence to challenge requirements when they seem to be incorrect over other evidence such as experiential or notional evidence. The results of the procedure followed in the case study are used to propose a potential process for future projects needing requirement challenging.
Recommended Citation
Crouch, Seth, "A Case Study in Challenging and Validating Engineering Requirements with Value-Based Techniques" (2012). All Theses. 1179.
https://tigerprints.clemson.edu/all_theses/1179