Getting Started with Engineering. McCue Camille

a need or a problem, brainstorm ideas on how to solve it, choose one, and then draw how you will make your product in real life.

      

Build: Use tools and materials to construct your product. A prototype is the first build of a product, before it is perfect.

      

Test: Use your product to find out how well it works.

      

Improve: Make changes to your product to fix the parts that don’t work well.

      When an engineer creates a process, such as cleaning an ocean oil spill or speeding up the way people move across a bridge, he or she follows this cycle:

      

Plan: Start with information about the problem or need, brainstorm ideas about how to address the need, choose one, and then write down the steps for how you will make your proposed process work, start to finish, in real life.

      

Implement: Perform your process using the steps of your plan.

      

Evaluate: Decide how well your process works.

      

Improve: Make changes in your process to speed up or simplify the parts that don’t work well.

      The Engineering Cycle is a cycle because you continue looping through the steps to constantly improve your product or process.