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ENGINEERING IS CONCERNED WITH MAXIMISING THE BENEFIT TO HUMANITY FROM THE AVAILABLE BUT OTHERWISE LIMITED RESOURCES.
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DESIGN Design is an indeterminate and iterative process. How long it takes to reach a solution is unknown. Some 80% of the task maybe completed in using only 20% of the time, with the remaining 20 % of the task requiring 80 % of the over all time. Some 80% of the task may be a simple exercise of documenting known solutions to common problems, with the remaining 20 % being an execise in finding solutions to new problems. The fastest approach to design is to stay with the known and don't introduce new problems. NOTES: The purpose of the diagram is to indicate the dependency and over lap of the various learned disciplines associated with the process of design and management. As the small corner diagrams indicate there is significant overlap between traditional disciplines such as civil and mechanical engineering. These in turn all overlap with materials engineering, and all overlap with architecture and industrial design. It is therefore difficult to show this overlap with 2D Venn Diagrams. The large central diagram takes another approach. Industrial Engineering is the newest of disciplines but it is the most generic and starts with the needs of humanity, and concerns itself with design and management of both product and processes. Architecture and Industrial Design provide the focal point the design of artefacts within the technological environment. Mining, Chemical and materials engineering provide materials and fuels required for production of the technological artefacts. The more traditional disciplines of civil, mechanical, electrical, and structural engineering, provide specialist knowledge primarily concerned with the details of specific technological artefacts, and are further divided up into more over lapping disciplines such as electronics, mechatronics, hydraulics, HVAC, naval, aeronautical, marine, aeromarine, fluid power, pneumatics, and many many more. All of these disciplines exist in a complex network of relationships and not have an heirarchial subdivision as often perceived.

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REQUIREMENTS FOR A MINIMUM SATISFACTORY STANDARD OF LIVING (ILO) 1) Food & Water 2) Clothing 3) Shelter 4) Essential Services These provide the benefits of Health, Safety and Welfare and should be maximised. The productivity of the following resources should be maximised providing also that quality is also maximised: 1) Land 2) Materials 3) Plant, Machines & Tools 4) Labour TIME = LIFE Time is a resource, which for each individual is in short supply. It therefore needs to be consumed wisely and efficiently. LIFE=JOURNEY The quality of the journey is important to the quality of the destination. The journey may be more important than the destination.
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