工科英语(2024-2025）

王歆

目录

  • Week1 Orientation
    • ● Introduction
  • U1 R&D
    • ● Week1 L1 Sources of funding
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week2 L2 Measuring & comparing R&D activity
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week3 L3 Time planning
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week4 L4 Project management
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week5 L5 Idea generating&testing
      • ● self assessment
  • Unit2 Design&Testing
    • ● Week6 L1 Design criteria&trends
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week7 L2 Trilemma&compromise
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week8 L3 Value engineering
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week9 L4 Product testing
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Team projectII
  • Unit3 Safety, Maintenance, and Quality Control
    • ● Week10 L1 Accident&Report
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week11 L2 Safety& Prevention
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week12 L3 Quality Control Method 1
      • ● self assessment
    • ● Week13 L4 Quality Control Method 2
      • ● self assessment
  • Week14 Team Project Presentation
  • Week15&16 Spoken test
    • ● Topic options
Week8 L3 Value engineering

Learning Objectives

  1. What is VE (value engineering)?

  2. Origin of VE

  3. How to apply VE

  4. VE practices and principles

Technical terms


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Teaching slides

Supplement exercise

1. The video is about how to apply value engineering step by step.

2. The following video is an interview of the founder of value engineering, a former engineering of General  motor, talked about how he came up with this technique to improve the product.