The Engineering Design Process

In order to solve the engineering problem, the engineer follows a series of procedures called "engineering design process".

As the EiE program is targeting young children, we have created a simple engineering design process (EDP) to guide students through our engineering design challenge. This EDP has only 5 steps and uses words that children can understand.

Improvement: What will go wrong? What is wrong? What will be better? Please modify your design to make it better. Try out

It is remarkable that EDP is very flexible. The model changes as much as an engineer. Using EiE, students can do all five steps, but in fact, engineers usually only need one or two steps, after which they take over their work to another team.

EDP ​​is a loop - there is no official start or end point. You can start from any step, focus on only one step, move back and forth between steps, and repeat the loop. For example, once you refine your design, we recommend you start over from improving the technology. You can use EDP repeatedly!

Please see the video of EiE Spolight with EDP. For other videos and other useful video resources, please watch the video collection.

Several equivalent technology design process (EDP) versions are used. Below is a description of the engineering process of the student team I am using. I posted it on my website's website. Please feel free to use and copy as much as you need. Although you can change some steps that are appropriate for the course, you can continue to be true to the basic EDP principles.

All PreK - 12 engineering experience includes some form of engineering design process. However, the process does not look the same for each experience. In recent years, many engineering education courses have been developed for students of K - 12, many of which include original engineering design versions. Engineering design often has different explanations for students of different ages. Older students are often provided with more detailed information and face more complex problems. Browse LinkEngineering's original and review course plans and learn how engineering uses are used in various grades.

The framework for the engineering design process describes the following phases: research, conceptualization, feasibility evaluation, design requirements, preliminary design, detailed design, production planning and tool design, and production. Others pointed out that "different authors define different stages of the design process where different activities are carried out in researchers and textbooks" and are simplified / generalized from problem definition, conceptual design, preliminary design etc. Proposing a model, detailed design, design communication. The standard summary of processes in European engineering design literature are clarification work, concept design, example design, and detailed design. In these examples, other important aspects such as concept evaluation and prototyping are one or more subsets and / or extensions of the listed steps.