Invention and Innovation-Teagan

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Across
  1. 2. A set of related parts; together, they form a whole, designed to accomplish some purpose.
  2. 3. A process of spontaneous thinking used by an individual or by a group of people to generate numerous alternative ideas while deferring judgment. The name was given to a situation when an individual but –because of synergy -preferably a group of people meets to generate new ideas around a specific area of interest. Using rules, which remove inhibitions, people are able to think more freely, develop synergy, and move into new areas of thought and so create numerous new ideas and solutions.
  3. 4. The process of modifying an existing product or system to improve it. Innovation is an improvement of an existing technological product, system, or method of doing something.
  4. 5. The profession involved in the development of processes, products, and systems that benefit humankind.
  5. 6. The process of finding solutions to difficult or complex issues. The problem-solving steps are similar to both our IB MYP Design Cycle and the Engineering Design Process.
  6. 11. A tangible artifact produced by means of either human or mechanical work, or by biological or chemical.
  7. 13. The ability or power to produce original thoughts or ideas based on reasoning and judgment. The quality of being creative or the ability to create. Creativity has resulted in innovations to technology.
  8. 14. A new product or system that has never existed before.A process of turning ideas into devices or systems.
  9. 15. The study of the natural world through observation, identification, description, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.
  10. 17. The person who first comes up with a brand new idea or thing. Inventors are flexible thinkers, willing to explore and research things from a variety of different resources; insightful, persistent people who view obstacles or problems that occur through the inventive process as challenges to overcome; and willing to explore any idea, no matter how impossible it may seem.
Down
  1. 1. Innovation often involves decreasing the overall capabilities of a product or system in order to increase its ability to perform a more narrow or specific task very efficiently. This process is called specialization of function.
  2. 2. The study of the natural world through observation, identification, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations.
  3. 7. –A methodical series of steps that engineers use in creating functional products and processes. The process is highly iterative or repetitive-parts of the process often need to be repeated many times before another can be entered -through the part(s) that get iterated and the number of such cycles in any given project can be highly variable. The EDP is similar to our IB MYP Design Cycle. The engineering design process involves a series of steps that lead to the development of a new product or system.
  4. 8. A technique based on the notion that everything new is a modification of something that already exists.
  5. 9. A full-size working model used to test a design.
  6. 10. A person who introduces new and improved methods, ideas, or products. Innovators document their design solutions with great detail to ensure that it is manufactured to address the problem it was designed to solve.
  7. 12. A human-made object.
  8. 13. A limit to the design process.
  9. 16. The desired specification of a product or system.
  10. 18. The practical application of knowledge especially in a particular area such as engineering or medical technology. Human innovation in action involves the generation of knowledge and processes to develop systems that solve problems. Technology is the capability given by the practical application of knowledge such as a car’s fuel-saving technology. Technology is also a way of accomplishing a task especially using technical processes, methods, or knowledge such as new technologies for information storage.