IED Unit 1 Key Words

To thoroughly and methodically analyze accomplishment against specific goals and criteria.

• Assess
• Assessment
• Justifiable
• Valid

An evaluation technique for technology that requires analyzing benefits and risks, understanding the trade-offs, and then determining the best action to take in order to ensure that the desired positive outcomes outweigh the negative consequences.

• Assessment
• Assess
• Justifiable
• Valid

A group technique for solving problems, generating ideas, stimulating creative thinking, etc. by unrestrained spontaneous participation in discussion.

• Brainstorm
• Assessment
• Piling-on
• Problem Identification

A person using the services of a professional person or organization.

• Client
• Designer
• Engineer
• Brainstorm

The ability to make or bring a new concept or idea into existence; marked by the ability or power to create.

• Creativity
• Innovation
• Invention
• Designer

A means of judging. A standard, rule, or test by which something can be judged.

• Criteria
• Constraint
• Design Brief
• Justifiable

1. A limit to a design process. Constraints may be such things as appearance, funding, space, materials, and human capabilities. 2. A limitation or restriction.

• Constraint
• Criteria
• Design Brief
• Design Statement

1. An iterative decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are converted into products or systems that meet human needs and wants or solve problems. 2. A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of something before it is built or made. 3. A decorative pattern

• Design
• Brainstorm
• Design Process
• Design Statement

A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints. The design brief is used to encourage thinking of all aspects of a problem before attempting a solution.

• Design Brief
• Design Process
• Engineering Notebook
• Design Statement

A book in which an engineer will formally document, in chronological order, all of his/her work that is associated with a specific design project.

• Design Brief
• Design Process
• Engineering Notebook
• Design Statement