Design Process Review

A method of shared problem (done in STEP 2) solving in which all members of a group spontaneously, and in an unrestrained discussion, generate ideas. KEY WORDS: unrestrained discussion, generate ideas

• guessing

• criteria

• brainstorming

• research

When you understand how to help a toddler learn to walk and consider the criteria for designing something to help them,  you have ___________________.

• defined the problem

• created a hypothesis

• designed a prototype

• brainstormed a solution

Criteria and constraints are considered in __________ of the design process.

• STEP 1 (Define Problem)

• STEP 2 (Generate Concepts)

• STEP 3 (Design a Solution)

• STEP 4 (Build & Test)

• STEP 5 (Evaluate)

  STEP 6 (Present)

When a solution is valid, it is _____________.

• The only solution

• proven to work

• not proven to work

• false

Collecting data about the performance of a prototype is done in _______________

• DESIGN STEP 1

• DESIGN STEP 2

• DESIGN STEP 3

• DESIGN STEP 4

• DESIGN STEPS 5 & 6

Using technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems. Also a professional field of work in solving technology problems.

• designing

• accounting

• engineering

• problem soving

Research is __________________________

• best done by Googling

• done while you are building a solution.

• completed during STEP 4 of the design process.

• a systematic, scientific, documented study of information related to a problem

If you are considering the color of a car to make it look cool you are _________________.

• considering wants in your criteria.

• think of how to to make the car go faster.

• thinking about what is needed.

• thinking about constraints.

A constraint is a ______________________.

• way of getting what you want.

• specification for performance.

• a great idea to solve a problem.

• limit to the design process.

A full-scale working model used to test a design concept is a _____________.

• final product.

• result of DESIGN STEP 2.

• prototype

• result of DESIGN STEP 3.