Engineering: Defining Problems and Designing Solutions - Middle School and High School

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  1. accuracy
    the quality of being near to the true value
  2. assembly
    the act of constructing something, as a piece of machinery
  3. brainstorm
    try to solve a problem by thinking intensely about it
  4. collaborate
    work together on a common enterprise or project
  5. component
    one of the individual parts making up a larger entity
  6. consensus
    agreement in the judgment reached by a group as a whole
  7. constraint
    a limitation or restriction
  8. control
    a standard against which other conditions can be compared
  9. criterion
    the ideal in terms of which something can be judged
  10. data
    a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn
  11. define
    decide upon or fix with certainty
  12. delimit
    determine the essential quality of
  13. designer
    someone who creates plans to be used in making something
  14. efficient
    being effective without wasting time, effort, or expense
  15. experiment
    the act of conducting a controlled test or investigation
  16. impact
    a forceful consequence; a strong effect
  17. interpretation
    an explanation that results from making sense of something
  18. mitigation
    the action of lessening in severity or intensity
  19. model
    a hypothetical description of a complex entity or process
  20. modeling
    the act of representing something
  21. open-ended
    without fixed limits or restrictions
  22. optimize
    make optimal; get the most out of; use best
  23. precision
    the quality of being exact
  24. problem
    a question raised for consideration or solution
  25. proposal
    something suggested, as a plan or assumption
  26. purpose
    an anticipated outcome that guides your planned actions
  27. qualitative
    involving distinguishing attributes
  28. quantitative
    expressible as an amount that can be measured
  29. reproducible
    capable of being reproduced
  30. simulation
    representing the real world by a computer program
  31. sketch
    preliminary drawing for later elaboration
  32. solution
    a method for solving a problem
  33. sustainable
    capable of being prolonged
  34. system
    a group of independent elements comprising a unified whole
  35. technology
    the practical application of science to commerce or industry
  36. tradeoff
    an exchange that occurs as a compromise
  37. trial
    the act of testing something
  38. variable
    a quantity that can assume any of a set of values
  39. viable
    capable of being done with means at hand
Created on Mon Feb 27 15:19:36 EST 2017 (updated Fri Apr 07 11:43:30 EDT 2017)

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