Title: Identify the steps of the engineering design process.
Course: Technology Transfer (21052-36) > Section: Applying the Engineering Design Process in STEM

Identification should include the following steps:

- Identify the need or opportunity for an engineering solution.
- Define an engineering design problem.
- Identify the criteria (i.e., requirements) and constraints (i.e., restrictions/limits) of the design problem.
- Research potential solutions to the design problem.
- Generate (i.e., brainstorm) multiple solutions to the design problem.
- Sketch the solutions to the design problem.
- Evaluate the requirements and constraints of each solution to the design problem.
- Justify an optimal solution to the design problem.
- Create a model or prototype for the chosen solution to the design problem, using appropriate materials and processes.
- Determine the objectives for an engineering test of the solution to the design problem.
- Test the solution to the design problem, using mathematical, conceptual, and/or physical modeling, simulating, and optimizing.
- Evaluate the test results.
- Formulate an alternate solution to the design problem, if needed.
- Test the alternate solution, if needed.
- Present the final project report.
- Document the final project report.

Process/Skill Questions:

- How does the engineering design process differ from the scientific method?
- What is the most crucial step in the engineering design process? Why?
- Why can the engineering design steps be completed in more than one order?
- How would one simplify this engineering design process to fewer steps?