In 1980, United Technologies Corporation, which owned high tech companies such as Pratt and Whitney aircraft engines and Sikorsky helicopters, purchased Carrier Corporation, the industry leader in residential heating and cooling systems. A jet engine combines thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, rotating machinery to compress gas, burn it and generate power. A refrigeration compressor combines thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat transfer, and rotating machinery to compress gas, and pump it through an refrigeration system to provide space cooling. E. Synthesis vs. analysis. The quantitative aspects of engineering design can usually be summed up as either analysis or synthesis.
Analysis is to decompose, to take apart or to resolve into constituent parts.
Analysis is a critical and recurring component of engineering design that requires a clear understanding of physical principles, appropriate mathematical techniques and engineering tools. Synthesis means putting things together. Believe it or not, synthesis is one of the first steps in engineering design process. Synthesis also occurs late in the design process, after all of the sub-systems are analyzed. The next step is to synthesize the design into a final product during the parametric design phase.