Explain the classification of engineering designers.

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Engineering design is a broad concept with many integrated stages, competing alternatives, and diverse requirements for success. As such, many design teams in industry have specialty engineers who are responsible for certain aspects of the design process. Most design projects have a team leader, or chief designer, who oversees the work of the individual team members. In the early stages of the process for mass-produced designs, industrial designers lend their creative skills to develop the product concept and style. For civil engineering projects, architects may be employed for their creative talents in conceptual design. Specialists in CAD, CAD designers, develop the computer geometry for the new design. Design analysts, specialists in FEA and other software tools, check the new design for stress and load distribution, fluid flow, heat transfer, and a host of other simulated mechanical properties. Model builders are engineers who make physical mock-ups of the design using modern rapid prototyping and CAM equipment. Detail designers complete the final design requirements by making engineering drawings and other forms of design documentation.