When we say “to design”, we usually mean “to look good”, “to make pretty”, or “to decorate”, rarely do we think “to plan”, or “to devise”.
That’s also design, and Wikipedia defines design as “planning that lays the basis for the making of every object or system…it means applied arts and engineering” (Wikipedia).
Thus design is an integral part of engineering. Like the rest of this series, we’ve gotten our Creators’ of Tomorrow take on design and engineering.
So to design or not to design? To design, of course!
But really, shouldn’t we be asking “how to combine design with engineering?”
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