Engineering Design Process
Technology
Ayanna Howard
Vocabulary
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What is Engineering?
The use of scientific and mathematical principals to develop something practical.
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If a robot is riding a bicycle, just like a human, and not falling over. how is this possible?
Computer technology developed by scientists enables the robot to maintain balance and move as a person pedaling a bike would.
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What is a roboticist?
Someone who designs and builds robots.
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To conceive of something and prepare the plans and drawings for it to be built is
Design
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What is a Design?
Design means to concieve something and prepare the plans and drawings for it to be built.
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What are some needs technology helps us meet?
Transportation, food, shelter, health, entertainment.
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What was Ayanna Howard trying to make robots do?
Get the Robots to make decisions without the help of people.
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A series of steps used to achieve a goal or make a product is called a
Process
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What are the design process steps?
1. find a solution 2. plan and build 3. test and improve 4. redesign 5. communicate
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What is a tool
A tool is anything that helps people shape, build, or produce things to meet their needs.
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Why does Ayanna Howard want to invent these types of robots?
So that humans can better explore unsafe places.
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An original or test model on which a real product is based is called a
Prototype
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What is a prototype?
A Prototype is an original or test model on which a real model is based.
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What is technology?
Any designed system, product, or process that people use to solve problems.
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Which tool does Ayanna Howard use to program robots?
a computer.
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Anything that helps people shape, build, or produce things to meet their needs is called a
tool
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What is the purpose of a prototype?
To judge the size, proportions, and styling of the design.
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The ballpark, scoreboard, rules, and baseball equipment are all examples of technology. How can technology help deliver the games events to people who are not are the ballpark?
Technology enables people to watch games on TV, over the radio, over the internet, or listen on the radio.
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What problems did scientists have working on the edge of the Antarctic ice shelf?
It would be very cold, the ice could break there might be dangerous animals in the water, its hard to get there, it would be hard to find a safe place where the scientists would sleep at night.
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The use of scientific and mathematical principles to develop something practical is called
Engineering
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