In today's enterprise landscape, software development often resembles a game of telephone. Business users articulate needs, and—after those needs go through layers of marketing, product and ...

If I’ve heard it once I’ve heard it a thousand times: Documentation is the least favorite part of engineering. But it also may be one of the most important and is growing to be more so. This was made ...

People often confuse the purpose and role of functional specifications and design documents. Design and function should never meet in a document. Design and function must be documented during the ...

It's often been said that form follows function. I prefer to think that function drives form. Unfortunately, just the opposite is true for modern CAD tools -- function is a slave to form (or geometry) ...

The huge undertaking of verifying a system-on-chip (SoC) design has challenged engineers for more than 20 years –– the amount of time spent on it hasn’t varied much from between 50-70% of the entire ...

Product or system design projects carried out by small student groups. Project definition, conceptual and detailed design, evaluation, and documentation. ME 398 is the capstone course in Product ...

What are software test libraries? The key role of diagnostic coverage in characterizing safety-mechanism effectiveness. How to approach target values. The magic behind today’s astonishing automotive ...