PLTW D&M lesson 1.1 vocabulary

The answer to a problem or opportunity.

• Solution

• Prototype

• Orthotist

• Team Norms

A medical professional who helps patients who require body braces, called orthoses, to support their backs, legs, or feet.

• Orthotist

• Decision Matrix

• Team Norms

• Collaboration

A tool for comparing design solutions against one another, using specific criteria that are based on project requirements.

• Design Process

• Decision Matrix

• Model

• Prototype

A systematic problem-solving strategy that designers follow to come up with a solution to a problem.

• Design Process

• Decision Matrix

• Model

• Solution

Guidelines that are developed by a team regarding how they are to interact, communicate, and conduct themselves as part of the team.

• Team Norms

• Collaboration

• Solution

• Model

Working together on a common purpose.

• Collaboration

• Team Norms

• Model

• Decision Matrix

An accurate representation of an object or phenomenon. Models can be visual, physical, mathematical, or computational and are often used in the development of scientific theories or the engineering of artifacts.

• Model

• Prototype

• Solution

• Design Process

A condition that affects body movement and coordination. It is caused by brain injury or brain malformation that occurs before, during, or immediately after birth when an infant’s brain is still developing.

• Cerebral Palsy (CP)

• Model

• Decision Matrix

• Solution

Spastic hemiplegia is a neuromuscular condition in which muscles on one side of the body are in a constant state of contraction.

• Spastic hemiplegia

• Design Process

• Decision Matrix

• Model

A brace that corrects alignment or provides support to correct a disorder of the limbs or spine

• Orthosis

• Model

• Prototype

• Solution