iterative problem-solving method that produces solutions to meet human needs and wants.
What is the Engineering Design Process?
What is the industrial age?
The First Law of Thermodynamics.
Which law states that "Energy can neither be created nor destroyed but energy can flow from one form to another." ?
determining the objective of the project or the action.
What is input?
When a designer must make a choice between a positive or negative impact for a product.
What is a trade-off?
the desired elements and features of a product or system.
What is criteria?
The development of tools and materials was based on _______________.
What is technological know-how?
The energy that comes from resources such as water, wind, and solar.
What is renewable energy?
The result of the objective
What is output?
A simple way to chart your proposed solutions.
What is a Decision Matrix?
The development of a new/ useful process, tool, machine, etc.
What is invention?
The zeroth law
What law is "if each two systems is equal to a third, then the first two are also equal." ?
Confirmation that the objective was achieved, how the objective could be improved.
What is feedback?
Driven by profit, motive, and the market.
What is design?
What are social, political, cultural, and economic?
A diagram that shows a type of energy that goes into a system and how energy is converted.
What is a Sankey Diagram?
Information and communication systems broken down?
What is decoder, storage, retrieval, destination?
A representation of the final solution that does not function.
What is a mock-up?
The nine distinct periods of time.
What is paleolithic, Mesolithic, Neolithic, bronze, iron, middle ages, renaissance, industrial, and information age?
The equation used for the first law of thermodynamics.
What is W = F X D?
An essential component of business and industry that is rapidly expanding.
What is information and communication?