Title: Explain the benefits of modeling and simulation.
Course: Engineering Studies (21002) > Section: Practicing Engineering Fundamentals

Explanation should include the ways that modeling and simulation allow for

- ideas to be tested in a virtual environment that
  - is safer (e.g., simulates within a range of conditions and extremes without physical risk)
  - reveals ergonomic issues
  - is easier to control (e.g., confidence in predictability based on known inputs and effect of variables)
  - is easier to modify (e.g., variables of time, conditions, scale, materials, chemistry)

- improvements in cost-effectiveness over real-world testing
- efficiency when creating a prototype
- errors in design/logic to emerge prior to implementation.

Process/Skill Questions:

- What is the difference between modeling and simulation?
- How can modeling reveal the cost-effectiveness of a product?
- What are the limitations of modeling and simulation?