Steps in the EDP
Vocabulary
General
General 2
Misc.
100

You are working on a design so you make a list

PLAN

100
This is any designed system, product, or process that people use to solve problems.
What is Technology?
100
To go back to an earlier step to make a modification or change to your design is called this.
What is iteration?
100

Another word for Constraint.

What is Restriction?

100

What program did we use when we 3D printed?

TinkerCad

200

Mary and John are building a birdcage together.

CREATE

200
This is an original or test model on which a real product is based.
What is prototype?
200
This professional asks a question and develops an experiment, or set of experiments, to answer that question.
What is a scientist?
200
Several college student want to design and build a solar powered car. They have chosen a design. Which of the following steps should they do next in the Engineering Design process?
What is Build a prototype?
200

Someone who identifies a problem and then design a solution.

INVENTOR

300

Sam and Todd are talking about how to mix colors for a new type of cup. They continue to think of ideas.

IMAGINE

300
This means to conceive something and prepare the plans and drawings for it to be built.
What is Design?
300
This professional identifies a specific need: Who need(s) what because why? And then, he or she creates a solution that meets the need.
What is an Engineer?
300
Wind applies this to bridges and other structures.
What is Force?
300

Any original product, idea, or structure that make life easier.

INVENTION

400

Fred and Sally are working on a design. They make a list. What is the problem? What material can we use? How have other people solved this problem?

ASK

400
This is anything that helps people shape, build, or produce things to meet their needs.
What are Tools?
400
Good designers try to generate as many possible solutions as they can. This is called this thing.
What is Brainstorming?
400
Someone who builds bridges, tunnels, roads and buildings.
What is a Civil Engineer?
400

When brainstorming occurs.

IMAGINE

500

Davis made a rolling basket but one of the wheels keep falling off. So he redesigns the wheels.

IMPROVE

500
This is the use of scientific and mathematical principles to develop something practical.
What is Engineering?
500
This is the final step of the Engineering Design Process.
What is Communicate results?
500
This new technology helps police and people from observing things from the sky.
What is a Drone?
500

All good inventions are thought of because of a ______

PROBLEM

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