Toy Design Engineering Design Steps

What is the first step in the Engineering Design process?

• Identify the problem

• Develop a solution

• Generating ideas

• Brainstorming

Provide the basis for what the design should be and what its limits are.

• Criteria

• Constraints

• Alternative Solutions

• Research Ideas and Explore Possibilities

Designers can make a smaller version without having to invest time and money into making the larger item.

• Written Design Proposal

• Model

• Manila Folder Cubes

• Prototype

Making adjustments and changes to yield results successively closer to the goal.

• Refining and Creating the design

• Feedback

• Iteration

• Selecting an Approach

A clear and concise identification and description of the design problem or opportunity.

• iteration

• Design statement

• Problem statement

• feedback

A process in which a system regulates itself by monitoring its own output.

• Feedback

• Algorithm

• Iteration

• Problem statement

Brainstorming- Designers let their imaginations run free with suggestions from the brainstorming idea.

• False

• True

Selecting an Approach - Other solutions could work just as well as the one selected by the designer or might be simpler or less expensive and therefore more desirable.

• True

• False

Testing and Evaluating- How well does the design meet the established criteria and where do refinements need to be made?

• True

• False

Developing a Written Design Proposal

• A written plan that specifies what the design will look like and what resources are needed to develop it.

• Based on the evaluation and testing results, designer may change the design of the product.

• A process in which a system regulates itself by monitoring its own output.

• Designers must conduct research to determine if a solution to the problem already exists.