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IED #1
Lesson 1.1 Vocabulary
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 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 | assessment |
| a group technique for solving problems, generating ideas, stimulating creative thinking, etc. by unrestrained spontaneous participation in discussion | brainstorming |
| a person using the services of a professional person or organization | client |
| a limit to a design process; i.e. appearance, funding, space, materials, and human capabilities | constraint |
| 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 | design |
| a written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints | design brief |
| 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 narrow down the possible solutions to one final choice | design process |
| a person who designs any of a variety of things. | designer |
| a person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems | engineer |
| a record of design ideas generated in the course of an engineer's employment that others may not claim as their own | engineer's notebook |
| a gradual development | evolution |
| an improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something | innovation |
| a new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation | invention |
| describing a procedure or process that repeatedly executes a series of operations until some condition is satisfied | iterative |
| an unwelcome or harmful matter needing to be dealt with | problem identification |
| human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems | process |
| a tangible artifact produced by means of either human or mechanical work, or by biological or chemical process | product |
| the systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions | research |
| forming or following a logical order of sequence | sequential |
| a method or process for solving a problem | solution |
| a required or agreed level of quality or attainment | standard |
| a person or group for which product or service design efforts are intended | target consumer |
| 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 | time line chart |