Tech and Engineering Ed General Vocab

The innovation, change, or modification of the natural environment to satisfy perceived human needs and wants.

• Problem

• Technology

• Solution

• Engineering Design Process

A person employed to maintain technical equipment and/or build technology and/or person skilled in the technique of a particular trade.

• Technician

• Engineer

• Iterative

• Engineering Design Process

A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.

• Technician

• Engineer

• Iterative

• Engineering Design Process

The need or the want for which we are trying to find a solution.

• Iterative

• Solution

• EDP Journal

• Problem

The fix for a problem/the thing that satisfies the need or the want.

• Problem

• Solution

• EDP Journal

• Iterative

A series of steps that engineers follow when they are trying to solve a problem and design a solution for something.

• Engineering Design Process Journal

• Problem

• Engineering Design Process

• Solution

Involving Repetition

• Solution

• Problem

• Technician

• Iterative

A document used to keep track of what you have done and to prove that you have done all the steps of the Engineering Design Process.

• Solution

• Engineering Design Process Journal

• Problem

• Engineering Design Process

These are the "tests" that are given during the unit. In my classes they are not graded.

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment

These are the "tests" that are given at the end of the unit. In my classes these are graded.

• Formative Assessment

• Summative Assessment