Big Idea: Invention and innovation are driven by human needs and wants, and are influenced by the core concepts of technology: systems, resources, requirements, optimization and trade-offs, processes, and controls. These concepts are the cornerstone for creative design.
Big Idea: Invention and innovation are creative ways to turn ideas into real things.
Big Idea: The Engineering Design Process is a systematic problem solving strategy, with criteria and constraints, that is used to develop many possible solutions to a problem, so as to satisfy human needs and wants. This process is iterative, and is informed by many factors such as human values, resources, environmental concerns and trade-offs in order to arrive at the best possible solution to the problem.