Engineering Design Vocab

What is a restriction on the degree of freedom one has in providing a solution to a problem or challenge?

• Iteration

• Constraint

• Prototype

• Standard

What is a specific and iterative set of steps that engineers use to evaluate and refine potential solutions to problems or challenges?

• Engineering design loop

• Brainstorming

• Engineering analysis

• Rapid prototyping

What term is characterized by or involving repetition?

• Prototype

• Iterative

• Rubric

• Patent

What describes what a particular product or service should do?

• Code

• Requirement

• Standard

• Engineering drawing

What is a set of mandatory minimum standards or rules?

• Patent

• Code

• Standard

• Rubric

What is an official document given by a state or government that allows exclusive right or privilege to an inventor for a specified period of time?

• Prototype

• Patent

• Iteration

• Engineering analysis

What is something set up and established as a rule for the measure of quantity, weight, extent, value, or quality?

• Standard

• Constraint

• Requirement

• Code

What is a team creativity activity with the purpose to generate a large number of potential solutions to a design challenge?

• Engineering analysis

• Brainstorming

• Rapid prototyping

• Engineering drawing

What is the use of computer technology for the design of objects?

• Engineering analysis

• Computer-aided design

• Rapid prototyping

• Iteration

What is the breaking down of an object, system, or problem into its basic parts to understand its essential features and their relationships to each other and to outside elements?

• Engineering analysis

• Brainstorming

• Engineering drawing

• Prototype