Resumen de Component-function templates to aid engineering design education
A new design instrument, component functional templates, has been developed to assist design engineering education. The templates attempt to link the functional basis and component taxonomy into one coherent visual form that can be used by novice designers as a functional modeling training tool. This paper presents the approach, derivation, and valid examples of template groupings that result from the analysis. Principal components analysis is used to extract historical data from consumer products whose information has been stored in an online repository. An application of the templates is presented where they prove to be sufficient to begin the modeling process that accurately describes the subsystem's functions.
