What is ‘The Engineering design process?’

Though I might start with the title “The Engineering Design Process”, it is a design process that can be applied to any problem in any industry. When I first looked at the process back in my college days, I thought nothing more of it other than another methodology to be learnt, but now in my more experienced years I have recognised the links between this process and the scientific process. The difference…. well, the engineering/design process starts with a problem, whereas a scientific process starts with a question, like lean and scientific thinking the design process breaks the problem/project down into manageable chunks, no different to how we tackle large problems. Engineers apply science to the problem after defining it, and then we can establish what physical relationships we need to apply along with any constraints we need to account for (ask questions to explore the boundaries). Once this is known we design a solution based on available technology (sometimes we may need to develop the technology), again for comparison scientists start with the question move on to define it and then use their knowledge to work out how that they believe it works (after researching), after which they move on to experimentation to see if they are ‘not wrong’. <a href="https://medium.com/@stuart.bateman01/what-is-the-engineering-design-process-799d8895a02d">Learn More</a>