Winter Quarter 2009 Course Announcement

David L. Jaffe, MS and Professor Drew Nelson
Tuesdays & Thursdays   4:15pm - 5:30pm
Main Quad, History Corner, Lane Hall (Building 200), Room 034 (lower level)

Example Spreadsheet
for
Comparing Design Concepts

This is a basic template of a spreadsheet you can use for comparing your design concepts: Design 1, Design 2, and Design 3, etc. The Features are characteristics such as cost to build, purchase price, complexity, how well a specific need is addressed, coolness factor, user acceptance, etc. (You can have more than 3 designs and 3 features.) Score each design for the features you have selected on a numeric scale (such as 1 - 10) and add up the columns. The design with the highest total is the overall best.

You can modify this template to include weighting factors for each feature. For example, if you believe that cost is twice as important as other features, you can multiply its score by 2, enter that value into the cell, and re-compute the totals. This is called a Pugh Selection Matrix.

See: What is a Decision Matrix?

Updated 09/05/2008

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