Design Process/Structure
The second step of the design process where information is gathered for your solution.
What is Research?
What is custom manufacturing?
Non-permanent devices used by people with disabilities that give them a better life. Examples: eye glasses, crutches, extension grabber.
What is an assistive device?
The force that propels an object forward.
What is thrust?
The convenient way to send a digital file from one computer to another.
What is email or texting?
This bridge gets its strength from its curved shape.
What is an arch bridge?
The manufacturing process that creates a lot of the same item at a low cost and rapid pace.
What is mass production?
Living organisms that are scientifically altered by splicing and replacing genes from other organisms.
What are genetically modified organisms or GMOs?
The best way to transport extremely large amounts of coal from Kentucky to Arizona.
What is a train?
The part of a communications device that converts sound waves into electrical impulses to the sound can be transmitted.
What is an encoder?
When you sacrifice one element of a design to improve another element.
What is a trade-off?
The manufacturing process which would give a client a product tailored to their needs.
This device is actually permanently implanted into a patient allowing them to have a better life.
What is an adaptive device?
The reason a pilot will lower the flaps of his plane before takeoff.
What is lift?
Television and the internet both use this type of system to transmit communications.
What are networks?
Before you create your final solution you must build and test this?
What is a prototype?
This material is often substituted for leather when making basketballs. Its durable properties make it a good choice for indoors or outdoors.
What is rubber?
Often sprayed on genetically modified crops in order to kill weeds and speed up wheat drying time.
What are herbicides?
A group of parts working together to form a whole.
What is a system?
The two primary functions of a radio.
What is receiving and decoding radio wave communications?
The primary force acting on an arch bridge.
What is compression?
Parts used in manufacturing that can be used in various different products, such as, wiper blades, batteries, and tires.
What are interchangeable parts?
A fast way for food processing plants to quickly kill harmful bacteria prior to shipping.
What is food irradiation?
When a land based vehicle needs to stop this subsystem is applied.
What are brakes?
The process of a communication being sent from the source to the receiver.
What is transmitting?