Initial ideas of interest here are only those that have survived the problem understanding activity.\u00a0 If, by the time you reach this point in understanding the problem, any ideas that surfaced along the way and were jotted down are no longer relevant\u2026 we don\u2019t want to hear about them here.<\/p>\n
This section is OPTIONAL<\/em>.<\/strong>\u00a0 So, if you don\u2019t have any initial ideas for a solution, then delete this section by selecting the section heading down to but not including the page break before the next section (\u201cEngineering Requirements\u201d).\u00a0 Google Docs<\/em> will automatically change the \u201cEngineering Requirements\u201d section number from 5 to 4.<\/p>\n If you do have some initial ideas you would like to put forth for some initial feedback, as indicated in the template, this section should begin with the following sentences:<\/p>\n \u201cWhile developing our understanding of the problem, some initial ideas for a solution began to surface.\u00a0 They are offered here in brevity, seeking (a) early-stage validation that we are understanding the needs and wants, and\/or (b) correction on how and where we are off track.\u201d<\/p>\n You will have space for up to two (2) at a size large enough to be meaningful.\u00a0 For each idea, provide a brief<\/em><\/strong> verbal description and a neat, annotated<\/em><\/strong> sketch.\u00a0 Note the emphasis on the word \u201cbrief.\u201d\u00a0 The textual portion<\/strong> of this section must not exceed \u00bc page<\/strong>; this section should be no more than one (1) page with graphics\u00a0\u2014 graphics are GENERALLY<\/em> helpful in engineering<\/strong> when annotated<\/em><\/strong>; neat hand-drawn sketches are fine here.<\/p>\n Google Docs<\/sub><\/em> is a trademark of Google LLC.<\/sub><\/p>\n Initial ideas of interest here are only those that have survived the problem understanding activity.\u00a0 If, by the time you reach this point in understanding the problem, any ideas that surfaced along the way and were jotted down are no longer relevant\u2026 we don\u2019t want to hear about them here. This section is OPTIONAL.\u00a0 So, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2764,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2764"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/me.sites.mtu.edu\/meemscd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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\n \u00a9 2017, William J. Endres<\/td>\n Updated September 07, 2022<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"