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IED 1.1
PLTW IED 1.1 Vocabulary Words and Terms to Know
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Assessment | An evaluation technique for technology that requires analyzing benefits and risks, understanding the trade-offs, and then determining the best action to take in order to ensure that the desired positive outcomes outweigh the negative consequences. |
Brainstorming | A spontaneous group discussion to produce ideas. |
Client | A person using the services of a professional person or organization. |
Constraint | 1. A limit to a design process. Constraints may be such things as appearance, funding, space, materials, and human capabilities. 2. A limitation or restriction. |
Design | 1. An iterative decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are converted into products or systems that meet human needs and wants or solve problems. 2. A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings before built. |
Design Brief | A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints. The design brief is used to encourage thinking of all aspects of a problem before attempting a solution. |
Design Process | A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem or satisfy human needs and wants and to winnow (narrow) down the possible solutions to one final choice. |
Designer | A person who designs any of a variety of things. This usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways uses visual cues to organize his or her work. |
Engineer | A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
Engineer’s Notebook | Also referred to as an Engineer’s Logbook, a Design Notebook, or Designer’s Notebook 1. A record of design ideas generated in the course of an engineer’s employment that others may not claim as their own. |
Evolution | A gradual development. |
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 | Describing a procedure or process that repeatedly executes a series of operations until some condition is satisfied. An iterative procedure may be implemented by a loop in a routine. |
Problem Identification | The recognition of an unwelcome or harmful matter needing to be dealt with. |
Process | 1. Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems; 2. A systematic sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output. |
Product | A tangible artifact produced by means of either human or mechanical work, or by biological or chemical process. |
Research | The systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions. |
Sequential | Forming or following a logical order or sequence. |
Solution | 1. A method or process for solving a problem. 2. The answer to or disposition of a problem. |
Standard | Something considered by an authority or by general consent as a basis of comparison. |
Target Consumer | A person or group for which product or service design efforts are intended. |
Time Line Chart | A one-axis chart used to display past and/or future events, activities, requirements, etc., in the order they occurred or are expected to occur for the purposes of analysis and communication. |