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To thoroughly and methodically analyze accomplishment against specific goals and criteria.
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An evaluation technique for technology. Techniques used to analyze accomplishments against specific goals and criteria. (Ex.: include tests, surveys, observations, and self-assessment.)
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A group technique for solving problems, generating ideas, stimulating creative thinking, etc.
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A person using the services of a professional person or organization.
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The ability to make or bring a new concept or idea into existence
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A means of judging. A standard, rule, or test by which something can be judged.
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A limit to a design process. ; A limitation or restriction.
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An iterative decision-making process that produces plans by which resources are converted into products or systems. ; A plan or drawing produced. ; A decorative pattern.
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A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its criteria, and its constraints.
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A part of a design brief that challenges the designer, describes what a design solution should do.
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A person who designs any of a variety of things.
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A person who is trained in and uses technological and scientific knowledge to solve practical problems.
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A book in which an engineer will formally document, in chronological order, all of his/her work that is associated with a specific design project.
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An improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
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A new product, system, or process that has never existed before, created by study and experimentation.
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A process that repeats a series of steps over and over until the desired outcome is obtained.
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Capable of being shown as reasonable or merited according to accepted standards.
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An idea that produces a similar idea or an enhanced idea.
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A tangible artifact produced by means of either human or mechanical work, or by biological or chemical process.
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A full-scale working model used to test a design concept by making actual observations and necessary adjustments.
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The systematic study of materials and sources in order to establish facts and reach new conclusions.
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Well-founded on evidence and corresponds accurately to the real world.
