7-STEP INVENTION PROCESS
This is Step 1 - you define the problem or need you are focusing on.
What is Identifying?
The first step of the Engineering Design Process - What is the problem? Who is the user?
What is ASK?
This Michigan city earned the nickname Motor City.
What is Detroit?
This is the classroom expectation you follow before speaking.
What is Raise Your Hand?
Engineers use this process — repeating testing and improving - to make designs better over time.
What is Iteration?
In Step 2, you do this to better understand the problem before solving it.
What is Research/Understanding?
This EDP step means choosing the best idea and designing it.
What is PLAN?
Detroit became Motor City because it is the birthplace of this industry.
What is the Automobile/Car Industry?
This journal is where inventors record their ideas, research, sketches, tests, and reflections.
What is an Invention Logbook?
True or False: Most engineering problems have only ONE correct answer.
What is FALSE? (Most problems have many solutions!)
This step means brainstorming MANY possible solutions - no idea is wrong!
What is Ideating?
In this EDP step you build a working model of your invention.
What is CREATE?
In Project 1, DAPCEP students build this type of vehicle.
What is a Motor-Powered Car?
Inventors use the logbook to record this - data collected during Step 6.
What are Test Results?
Engineering combines creativity, science, and this third thing.
What is Problem-Solving?
In Step 4 you create these to show what your invention looks like - they must be labeled.
What are Sketches/Designing?
This EDP step means evaluating how well your design works.
What is TEST?
At the end of the DAPCEP challenge, all student vehicles combine into this.
What is One Motor City System?
This classroom expectation means arriving prepared and on schedule.
What is Being On Time and Ready to Learn?
This is why the Engineering Design Process matters - it helps engineers stay this.
What is Organized?
The final Step 7 - you share your invention and explain your entire process to others.
What is Communicating?
The final EDP step - you make changes and redesign based on what testing revealed.
What is IMPROVE
Engineers design these to move people and goods, connecting cities and communities.
What is Transportation/Vehicles?
The logbook helps inventors make better decisions about this.
What is Their Invention?
Real engineers do NOT share a final design until they go through this process of repeated improvement.
What is the Engineering Design Process/Iteration?