Processes
Documentation
Writing Information
Portfolios
Thinking About It
100
This process begins with identifying a problem or need and within the constraints of the EDD course, ends with course completion and presentation of a project solution.
What is the Product Design Process?
100
This book contains sections for contact information, correspondence, conversation, sketches and drawings, reference citations, collected data, and has a chronological section like a personal diary.
What is a Journal?
100
This is a concise and exact use of words or shortness of time.
What is Brevity?
100
This portfolio is a collection of selected work displayed in electronic format.
What is an Electronic Portfolio?
100
This practical application of scientific and engineering knowledge for discovering new knowledge about products, processes, and services, and applying that knowledge allows you to create new and improved products, processes, and services that will fill market needs.
What is Research and Development?
200
This systematic problem-solving strategy with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem or satisfy human needs and wants.
What is the Design Process?
200
This document conveys the results of scientific and technical research and provides recommendations for actions.
What is a Technical Research Paper?
200
This statement or piece of information is true or a real occurrence.
What is a Fact?
200
This portfolio shows the best work targeting specific skills.
What is a Showcase Portfolio?
200
These stepwise methods hav e been adopted by the technical and scientific communities for conducting research.
What are Research Methodologies?
300
In this process, the transformation of raw material into finished goods occurs.
What is the Manufacturing Process?
300
This documentation is used to store all course materials not included in teh engineering notebook such as activities, research, reference materials, and handouts.
What is a Course Binder?
300
This category of writing serves to expound, set forth, or explain.
What is Expository Writing?
300
Tis portfolio is a collection of selected work which demonstrates the range and depth of experience and skills gained from an entire course.
What is a Course Portfolio?
300
This ability allows you to acquire information, analyze and evaluate it, and reach a conclusion or answer by using logic and reasoning skills.
What is Critical Thinking?
400
During this process, you arrive at a decision or desired result by repeating rounds of analysis or a cycle of operations.
What is an Interative Process?
400
This documentation contains all design work completed for a specific design project. It is a chronological documentation of all tasks completed during a design process.
What is an Engineering Notebook?
400
This is the systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
What is research?
400
This portfolio is a collection of artifacts assembled to document the design process of a single project.
What is a Project Portfolio?
400
These logical conclusions are drawn from inferred, presumed, and extrapolated data.
What is Inductive Reasoning?
500
This decision making process allows STEM disciplines to convert resources optimally to meet a stated objective.
What is the Engineering Design Process?
500
This writing style guide is widely used in academia for writing and the documentation of research in the humanities.
What is an MLA Style Manual?
500
This term is commonly used to describe the writing style guidelines which are developed, maintained, and periodically revised and updated by the American Psychological Association.
What is APA format?
500
This portfolio shows growth from early to later work in regard to specific skills and extent of mastery. Entries can span several years and courses.
What is a Longitudinal Portfolio?
500
This scientifically specific method forms and then answers questions germane to the larger problem at hand.
What are Inquiry Methods?
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