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Step 1: Clarify Team Assignment

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Introduction to Engineering Design

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Clarifying the team assignment is the first step of the EDP (Figure 1.1). The goal of this step is to understand the importance of the design challenge, through a client’s motivations, and the desired outcome from the project, through a client’s expectations. By clarifying the assignment, a team can reach consensus about what a problem is and why it needs to be solved. This information is used to write a clear problem statement.

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Saterbak, A., Wettergreen, M. (2021). Step 1: Clarify Team Assignment. In: Introduction to Engineering Design. Synthesis Lectures on Engineering, Science, and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02093-3_2

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