Invention and innovation Study Guide

The definition that best describes innovation is...

• the process of modifying an existing product or system to improve it

• the process of manufacturing a new product

• the process of turning ideas into devices or systems

• the process of designing technologies that have never existed before

Choose a statement below that is NOT a characteristic of brainstorming

• the more ideas an individual or a team thinks of, the more likely they are to be quality ideas

• develop a hypothesis to generate ideas

• Spontaneous thoughts to generate numerous ideas to solve a problem

• write each spoken idea down as it is given and move on

Of the qualities listed below, which would an inventor most likely have

• wealthy

• humerous

• curiosity

• writer

The definition that best describes invention is...

• Invention is the first product produced on an assembly line

• Invention is having a desired goal to achieve something

• Invention is changing the size of an existing product

• Invention is a process of turning ideas into devices or systems

Your uncle, an aerospace engineer, has just described the newest design version of a device to launch rockets. This would be an example of…

• manufacturing

• invention

• innovation

• prototyping

Your team has just finished a presentation of your new desk design to a group of furniture buyers. Which step of engineering design process did you just complete

• Identify the challenge

• Test and evaluate

• Present the solution

• Explore ideas

the engineering design process involves...

• Asking questions to find answers

• A series of steps that lead to the development of a new product or system

• Creating a flow chart for a process

• A process for experimenting that results in a new product or system

The principal has asked the 8th grade students to help solve the problem of 1st grade students to misplacing or losing their pencils. They have identified their challenges and limitations. What would be the best for them to do at this point

• explore ideas

• start creating their solution

• buy more pencils

• test and evauluate

By observing a group of children playing using the new pencil holder you have built, you would be participating in which step of the engineering design

• present the solution

• identify the challenge

• plan and develop

• test and evaluate

Inventors are…

• Flexible thinkers, willing to explore and research things from a variety of different resources

• Willing to explore any idea, no matter how impossible it may seem

• Insightful, persistent people who view obstacles or problems that occur through the inventive process as challenges to overcome

• all of the above