Engineering Design Vocab

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The engineering design process is a cycle because...

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Engineers start back over if their design fails.

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Solution

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Your answer to a problem

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Successful solution requires:

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Criteria

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Things that hinder building/creating:

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Constraint

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A smaller version that resembles the real thing

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model

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Criteria for Joe's chicken fence:

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Wires must be no wider than 3 inches.

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Joe's constraints for building a fence:

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The money and time he has.

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Alex needs a doorstop that won't scratch his wooden floor. Best material?

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A large rock wrapped inside a pair of socks

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Ella's product design criteria:

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Food must not go down her drain.

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Engineers build solutions to problems or needs.

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Build things to solve problems or meet needs