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Types of engineering design

In this video, we classify engineering design into different types according to the novelty and level of challenge of the design problem.

In this video, we classify engineering design into different types according to the novelty and level of challenge of the design problem. There are five different types of design problems, ranging from innovative design on one end, to parametric design on the other. These are innovative design, routine design, adaptive design, continuous or evolutionary design, and parametric design.

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