Edwin R. Carney, P.E. University of Missouri - Rolla 205 Basic Engineering Bldg. In order to arrive eventually at the best design, it is critical that as many different technical approaches as possible be considered early in the design process. Your group should have several brainstorming meetings in which various technical approaches are identified and listed. The focus should be on generating ideas, not on evaluating them. The more ideas you can generate and flesh out, the better.
Evaluation comes later.
Try hard to involve everyone in the group. Please provide me a memorandum on your design team letterhead which indicates the various preliminary technical approaches you have considered in attempting to solve the design problem posed. This would include both sketches and written descriptions of each of the major components for each approach considered. Please submit this information at the beginning of class on Monday, September 28, 1998. Thank you for your attention to this matter.