Outcome
5: An ability to design a system, component or process
Level 5 performance
characterized by:
- Develops
a design strategy, including a plan of attack, decomposition of
work into subtasks, development of a timetable
- Suggests
new approaches and improves on what has been done before
- Develops
several potential solutions and finds optimum
- Understands
how areas interrelate and demonstrates ability to integrate prior
knowledge into a new problem
Thinks holistically: sees the whole as well as the parts
- Uses
computer tools and engineering resources effectively
- Supports
design procedure with documentation and references
- Develops
a solution that includes economic, safety, environmental and other
realistic constraints
- Applies
engineering and/or scientific principles correctly to design practical
processes
- Recognizes
practical significance of design outcome/answer (i.e. no outrageously
sized reactors, 600 m towers, or pipes 1 mile in diameter!)
Level 3 performance
characterized by:
-
Uses a design strategy with guidance
- Can
follow a previous example competently
- Can
develop and compare multiple solutions to a problem, but does
not usually arrive at the best result; conducts optimization but
neglects one or two key aspects
- Can
use prior knowledge to design individual pieces of equipment competently
when guided to do so
- Does
not think holistically: does not see the integration of the pieces
clearly
- Minimal
or incorrect use of computer tools and engineering resources
- Design
is done, but procedures and equations are not documented or referenced
- Includes
only minor or cursory consideration of economic, safety, and environmental
constraints
- Applies
engineering and/or scientific principles incompletely or incorrectly
to design a practical process
- Gives
an answer, but does not check its practicality
Level 1 performance
characterized by:
-
No design strategy; haphazard approach
- Cannot
design processes or individual pieces of equipment without significant
amounts of help
- Only
focuses on one solution to a problem; no optimization attempted
- Unable
to relate prior knowledge to the design problem
- Has
no concept of the process as a sum of its parts
- No
use of computer tools and engineering resources
- Design
is done incompletely without the proper equations and without
references
- No
consideration of economics, safety, and environment
- No
application of engineering and/or scientific principles
- Design
is incomplete, no answer is given
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
University of Delaware | Newark, DE 19716-3120
phone: 302-831-2442 | e-mail CEE | fax: 302-831-3640
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