IED Unit 1 Key Terms

___________ is a group technique for solving problems, generating ideas, stimulating creative thinking

• Brainstorming

• Creativity

• Criteria

• Design

_______________ means capable of being shown as reasonable or merited according to accepted standards

• Justifiable

• Design process

• Design statement

• Design brief

A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to solve a problem is known as ______________

• Justifiable

• Design process

• Design statement

• Design brief

A standard, rule, or test by which something can be judged is known as _________

• Criteria

• Constraint

A limitation or restriction is also is a __________

• Criteria

• Constraint

An ______________ is an improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something

• Innovation

• Invention

A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation is an ________________

• Invention

• Innovation

A ______________ is a person who designs any of a variety of things. This usually implies the task of creating drawings or in some ways uses visual cues to organize his or her work

• Designer

• Engineer

A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems is known as ______________

• Designer

• Engineer

A process that repeats a series of steps over and over until the desired outcome is obtained is a(n) _____________ process

• Iterative

• Justifiable

• Protoytpe

• Product