IED Unit 1 Vocabulary

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

• Electrode
• Assess
• Problem Identification
• Invention

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.

• Justifiable
• Acceleration
• Assessment
• Robotics

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

• System
• Brainstorm
• Assess
• Prototype

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

• Adhesion
• Assess
• Client
• Angle

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

• Hydrolic
• Piling-on
• Velocity
• Creativity

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

• Criteria
• Justifiable
• Algorithm
• Coordinate

A limit to a design process or a limitation or restriction.

• Problem Identification
• Short-Circuit
• Constraint
• Hexapod

A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of something before it is built or made.

• Cartoon
• Design
• Assess
• Fundamental

A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints.

• Automation
• Piling-on
• Magnetic Field
• Design Brief

A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem or satisfy human needs and wants.

• Client
• Brainstorm
• Design Process
• System