PLTW Engineering
Terms in this set (130)
1. Define Problem
2. Generate Concepts
What is the Design 3. Develop a Solution
Process? 4. Construct and Test Prototype
5. Evaluate Solution
6. Present Solution
A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and
constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to
What is a Design Process?
solve or satisfy human needs or wants and to narrow
down the possible solutions to one final choice.
A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its
What is a Design Brief?
criteria and its constraints.
A tool used to compare design solutions against one
What is a Decision Matrix?
another using specific criteria.
Drawings that provide technical information necessary to
What are technical
produce a product. They include information such as
drawings?
material, size shape, and assembly, of necessary.
A report that includes the data and analysis of the
What is a test report?
prototype testing.
What are project A list of recommendations to optimize or redesign the
recommendations? solution.
A collection of documents selected for a specific
What is a project portfolio?
purpose.
, A type of technical sketch that
appears three dimensional
What is an isometric
because it shows three sides on
pictorial?
an object and is proportional to
the real object being drawn.
Engineering is the application of mathematics and
What is engineering?
scientific principles to better or improve life.
Different types of pictorals Isometric, Oblique, and Perspective
What is a cavalier oblique An oblique pictorial in which the height, width, and
pictorial? depth are represented at full scale.
What is a cabinet oblique An oblique pictorial in which depth is represented as
pictorial? half scale compared the the height and width scale.
What is an oblique A type of technical sketch in which the width dimension
pictorial? is horizontal.
A type of technical sketch in which the width dimension
What is an isometric
is not horizontal and it shows all three sides "equally".
pictorial?
Three adjacent faces share a single point.
A technique used in sketching to maintain
What is the box method? proportionality. Starts with a sketcher envisioning an
object contained within an imaginary box.
What is a multiview A drawing that shows two or more two-dimensional
drawing? views of a three-dimensional object.
Width The measure of an object from side to side.
Height The measure of an object from top to bottom.
Depth The measure of an object from the front to the back.
A drawing that offers the most realistic 3d view of all the
What are perspective pictorial methods, since it portrays the object in a
drawings? manner that is most similar to how the human eye
perceives the visual world.
Different types of one point, two point, three point
perspective representations
Terms in this set (130)
1. Define Problem
2. Generate Concepts
What is the Design 3. Develop a Solution
Process? 4. Construct and Test Prototype
5. Evaluate Solution
6. Present Solution
A systematic problem-solving strategy, with criteria and
constraints, used to develop many possible solutions to
What is a Design Process?
solve or satisfy human needs or wants and to narrow
down the possible solutions to one final choice.
A written plan that identifies a problem to be solved, its
What is a Design Brief?
criteria and its constraints.
A tool used to compare design solutions against one
What is a Decision Matrix?
another using specific criteria.
Drawings that provide technical information necessary to
What are technical
produce a product. They include information such as
drawings?
material, size shape, and assembly, of necessary.
A report that includes the data and analysis of the
What is a test report?
prototype testing.
What are project A list of recommendations to optimize or redesign the
recommendations? solution.
A collection of documents selected for a specific
What is a project portfolio?
purpose.
, A type of technical sketch that
appears three dimensional
What is an isometric
because it shows three sides on
pictorial?
an object and is proportional to
the real object being drawn.
Engineering is the application of mathematics and
What is engineering?
scientific principles to better or improve life.
Different types of pictorals Isometric, Oblique, and Perspective
What is a cavalier oblique An oblique pictorial in which the height, width, and
pictorial? depth are represented at full scale.
What is a cabinet oblique An oblique pictorial in which depth is represented as
pictorial? half scale compared the the height and width scale.
What is an oblique A type of technical sketch in which the width dimension
pictorial? is horizontal.
A type of technical sketch in which the width dimension
What is an isometric
is not horizontal and it shows all three sides "equally".
pictorial?
Three adjacent faces share a single point.
A technique used in sketching to maintain
What is the box method? proportionality. Starts with a sketcher envisioning an
object contained within an imaginary box.
What is a multiview A drawing that shows two or more two-dimensional
drawing? views of a three-dimensional object.
Width The measure of an object from side to side.
Height The measure of an object from top to bottom.
Depth The measure of an object from the front to the back.
A drawing that offers the most realistic 3d view of all the
What are perspective pictorial methods, since it portrays the object in a
drawings? manner that is most similar to how the human eye
perceives the visual world.
Different types of one point, two point, three point
perspective representations
