Vocabulary
Design Process
Inventions/Inventors
Engineering
100
An original or first model of something from which other forms are copied or developed.
What is a prototype?
100
It is the 1st thing you would want to do in the design process? Hint: It has to do with figuring out what the problem is.
What is Ask?
100
He discovered electricity.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
This type of engineering includes the design and construction of buildings, roads, bridges and dams.
What is civil engineering?
200
This word means to work with; work together, to work jointly on an activity; especially to produce or create something.
What is collaborate?
200
It's the part of the design process in which you brainstorm.
What is Imagine?
200
He invented the telephone.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
200
This type of engineering deals with the application of mechanical power and the design of mechanical systems, machines and tools.
What is mechanical engineering?
300
Which word means that something new or different is introduced?
What is innovation?
300
It's the part of the design process in which you draw or sketch your plan on paper or some other device.
What is Plan?
300
He invented the light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
300
This type of engineering includes the study of electricity and the design of electrical systems like circuits and computer chips.
What is electrical engineering?
400
This vocabulary word that means limitations and restrictions.
What is "constraints?"
400
It's the step of the design process in which you actually make what you've drawn out on paper.
What is Create?
400
In the 1800's Samuel Morse invented this technology to revolutionize long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
What is the telegraph?
400
This type of engineering uses science to process raw materials and chemicals into useful forms.
What is chemical engineering?
500
What word means to prepare the preliminary sketch or the plans for (a work to be executed), especially to plan the form and structure of?
What is "design?"
500
It is the last step in the design process after you've created your prototype.
What is Improve?
500
This is a method of sending text messages by keying in a series of electronic impulsed usually represented by a short pulse (called a dot) and a long pulse (called a dash).
What is Morse Code?
500
This type of engineering combines computer science and electronic engineering in order to design computer technology from the very small, such as microprocessors, to the very big, such as supercomputers.
What is computer engineering?