engineering design notebook

  • Notebooks provide space to brainstorm and capture ideas in one area to aid in the synergizing of ideas.
  • Notebooks are a design record to document project intellectual property.
  • Notebooks are a Project Management tool to document team communications (meeting agendas, key decisions, action items, etc.)
  • Notebooks are one way to demonstrate individual contributions to the team.
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Factoid: Thomas Edison completed over 2500 design notebooks in his lifetime.

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