Engineering Design Process
This is the first step of the Engineering Design Process, where you define what needs to be solved.
What is Identify the Problem?
This subsystem provides the force to move a vehicle forward.
What is the propulsion system?
True or False:
All systems take in inputs, go through processes, and produce outputs.
What is true?
The person or place where a message starts is called the ____.
Answer: What is the source?
This is a first or preliminary model from which later versions are developed.
What is a prototype?
This final step involves making improvements based on your test results.
What is Revise the Design?
This subsystem is the framework or body that holds everything together.
What is the structural system?
The energy, materials, or information that go into a system are called ____.
What are inputs?
This part keeps or saves a message for later, like a saved text or email inbox.
What is storage?
This step involves building a preliminary model of your design.
What is Build a Prototype?
This step involves measuring results and recording what happens during testing.
What is Test and Collect Data?
This subsystem steers or directs the path of the vehicle.
What is the guidance system?
The results a system produces are called ____.
What are outputs?
This part sends the coded message through air, wires, or the internet.
What is the transmitter?
This step is where engineers brainstorm and sketch possible solutions.
What is Make a Plan?
These are limitations or restrictions that shape how a design is made.
What are constraints?
This subsystem supports the vehicle and helps it move smoothly by managing contact with surfaces.
What is the suspension system?
The actions or mechanisms that change inputs into useful work are known as ____.
What are processes?
This part changes the coded message back into the original message.
What is the decoder?
This step involves gathering information and looking at existing solutions.
What is Research?
These are the rules or standards used to judge how good a solution is.
What are criteria?
This subsystem allows adjustments and fine-tuning to improve performance or safety.
What is the control system?
Information about performance that helps improve the system is called ____.
What is feedback?
This part changes the message into a code or signal.
What is the encoder?
Say the mnemonic that helps remember the Engineering Design Process steps.
What is “I Really Make Big Tall Robots”?