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IED_1.1Terms
IED_KeyTerms_Unit 1
Term | Definition |
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Assess | To thoroughly and methodically analyze accomplishements against goals |
Assessment | An evaluation technique for technology that analyzes risks and benefits |
Brainstorm | A group technique for solving problems, generating ideas. |
Client | A person using the servises of a professional person or organization. |
Creativity | The ability to make or bring a new concept or idea into existence. |
Criteria | A means of judging. A standard or a rule or test. |
Constraint | A limit to a design process. A limit or a restriction. |
Design | An iterative decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are converted into products or systems that meet human needs and wants. |
Design Brief | A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria and its constraints. |
Design Process | A systematic probmlem solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions. |
Design Statement | A part of the design brief that challenges the designer, what a design solution must do.... |
Designer | A person who designs any of a variety of things. |
Engineer | A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
Engineering Notebook | A book in which an engineer will formally document, in chronological order, all of his/her work that is associated with a specific design project |
Innovation | An improvement of an existing technological product, system. or method of doing something. |
Invention | A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation. |
Iterative | A process that repeats a series of steps over and over and over until the desired outcome is obtained. |
Piling-on | An idea that produces a similar idea or an enhanced idea. |
Problem Identification | the recognition of an unwelcome or harmful matte needeng to be dealt with. |
Product. | A tangible artifact produced by means of either human or mechanical work... |
Prototype | A full-scale working model used to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments. |
Research | The systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reath new conclusions. |