a restriction on the degee of freedom one has in providing a solution to a problem or challenge

• Constraint

• Iterative

• Requirement

• Data

A specific and iterative set of steps that engineers use to evaluate and refine potential solutions to problems or challenges. The steps: ask to identify the need and constraints, research the problem, imagine possible solutions, plan by selecting the most promising solution, create a prototype, test and evaluate the prototype, and improve and redesign as needed

• Engineering Design Loop

• Brainstorming

• Innovation

• Design

Characterized by or involving repetition. During the process, you may go back and forth among the steps and may not always follow them in order.

• Criteria

• Iterative

• Design

• Innovation

What a particular product or service should do. It is a statement that identifies a necessary attribute, capability, characteristic or quality. In engineering, sets of requirements are inputs into the design stages of product development.

• Brainstorming

• Model

• Requirement

• Data

A team creativity activity with the purpose to generate a large number of potential solutions to a design challenge.

• Design

• Process

• Model

• Brainstorming

A principle or standard by which something may be judged or decided

• Data

• Innovate

• Criteria

• Constrain

Facts and statistics collected together for reference or analysis

• Data

• Design

• Design Loop

• Decide

A plan or drawing produced to show the look and function or workings of a building, garment, or other object before it is built or made

• Design

• Innovation

• Iterative

• Contraint

A decision-making process surrounding any design

• Design decisions

• personal preferences

• Engineering Design Process

A new idea for an existing method, idea, product, etc.

• Innovation
• Duplication
• Repetition
• Redundancy