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The Engineering Design Process: How To

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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The Engineering Design Process: How To

Gloria Collier (Technological design 2b)
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Define the Problem

  • What needs fixing or improving?
  • What are you trying to do?
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brainstorm solutions

  • How can you fix the problem?
  • What could work?
  • What won't work?
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Research IDEAS & Explore the possibilities

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Identify criteria & specify constraints

What limitations may prevent success? what MUST happen to reach success?

Consider alternative solutions

(Just in case the world isn't ready for your genius)

Select an approach

How will you go about solving your problem?

Develop a written design proposal

put your formal ideas on paper (Because being professional is important)

Make a model or protoype

bring your idea to life by building a functioning model!
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test and evaluate your design

Did it work? How well? how can you improve it?

refine and improve

Make any necessary changes to your design/model to make it work even better!
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Create/Make Product

Time to make that finishing masterpiece!
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Communicate Results

does your design meet the efficiency quota? Tell others so they can benefit.
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HAVE FUN DESIGNING & SAVING THE WORLD!

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