EDP Key Vocabulary

What is the formulation of a plan to help an engineer build a product with a specified performance goal called?

• Innovation

• Engineering Design Process

• Prototype

• Troubleshoot

What is the planned outcome of a technology, usually positive, called?

• Unintended

• Obsolete

• Intended benefit

• Iteration

What term describes an outcome of a technology that was not planned and can be positive or negative?

• Innovation

• Unintended

• Prototype

• Model

What is a specific problem-solving approach used intensively in business and industry to prepare devices and systems for the marketplace?

• Research and development

• Brainstorm

• Troubleshoot

• Iteration

What is used to communicate and test design ideas and processes?

• Innovation

• Model

• Prototype

• Invention

What is the process of modifying an existing product or system to improve it?

• Innovation

• Troubleshoot

• Iteration

• Obsolete

What is a problem-solving method used to identify the cause of a malfunction in a technological system?

• Brainstorm

• Prototype

• Troubleshoot

• Invention

What is the process of turning ideas and imagination into devices and systems?

• Iteration

• Invention

• Model

• Obsolete

What is the process of doing something again and again, usually to improve it?

• Prototype

• Brainstorm

• Iteration

• Research and development

What term describes a discarded or outmoded type; out of date?

• Obsolete

• Innovation

• Intended benefit

• Troubleshoot