Lesson 1.1 Key terms
Assessment: the process of documenting, usually in measurable terms, knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs.
Client: a piece of software that accesses services from another piece of software (a server)
Design:usually considered in the context of the applied arts, engineering, architecture, and other such creative endeavors, is used both as a noun and a verb.
Design Process: A process or series of steps you take to design.
Engineer: Someone who is trained or professionally engaged in a branch of engineering. Engineers use technology, mathematics, and scientificknowledge to solve practical problems.
Evolution:the change from generation to generation.
Invention: An invention may sometimes be based on earlier developments, collaborations or ideas, and the process of invention requires at least the awareness that an existing concept or method can be modified or transformed into an invention.
Problem Identification:
Product: A thing that was designed and produced.
Sequential: an ordered list of objects (or events). Like a set, it contains members (also called elements or terms), and the number of terms (possibly infinite) is called the length of the sequence.
Standard: in the context related to technologies and industries, is the process of establishing a technical specification, called a standard, among competing entities in a market, where this will bring benefits without hurting competition.
Time Line Chart: A chart with a timeline.... >___<
Brainstorming: a group creativity technique designed to generate a large number of ideas for the solution to a problem.
Constraint: Limitation or restriction.
Design Brief: A comprehensive written document for a design project developed in concert by a person representing the business need for design and the designer.
Designer: A person who designs things.
Engineer’s Notebook: A special notebook that engineers use to to draw or write out their ideas.
Innovation: the process of making improvements by introducing something new
Iterative: the act of repeating.
Process: a naturally occurring or designed sequence of changes ofproperties or attributes of an object or system.
Research: a human activity based on intellectualinvestigation and aimed at discovering, interpreting, and revising human knowledge on different aspects of the world. Research can use the scientific method, but need not do so.
Solution: the act of solving a problem, question, etc.:
Target Consumer: A group of people that the product is designed to attract.
