Design Principles
Article on Professionalism
I add this equation to my frontpage because it was used at a seminar during my junior year in college by a guest lecturer who was originally from DOW Chemical. There was nothing complicated about the seminar but the concept presented was incredibly insightful and concise. The topic was about Design Principles and here are a couple heuristics that I remember vividly:
- Good designs avoid needless complexity
- Good designers do the least amount of work possible
- AND the quality of a solution is proportional to the number of scenarios it solves out all the potential problems that exist.
It was this last bullet point, where we consider all the potential combinations, that gave me additional focus - keep it simple, do what is needed and move to the next project, and develop your engineering intuition such that you can foresee problems before they occur.
\(\LARGE_{n} C_r=\frac{n!}{r!(n-r)!}\)
Combination
