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8th Grade PLTW
Activity B.3.a Hobby Organizer Design
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Process | Human activities used to create, invent, design, transform, produce, control, maintain, and use products or systems; a sequence of actions that combines resources to produce an output. |
| Engineer | A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. |
| Designer | A person who designs any of a variety of things. |
| Design | 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 Process | A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to a problem or to satisfy human needs and wants and winnow (narrow) down the possible solutions to one final choice. |
| Ergonomics | The study of workplace equipment design or how to arrange and design devices, machines, or workspace so that people and things interact safely and most efficiently. |
| 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. |
| Annotate | To make notes on a sketch to provide further information. |
| Dimension | A measure in one direction. |
| Decision Matrix | A tool for systematically ranking alternatives according to a set of criteria. |
| Evaluate | To form an idea of the amount or value of; assess. |
| Criteria | Desired specifications (elements or features) of a product or system. |
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