DEFINE THE PROBLEM
1) Finding an idea for your engineering project requires you to identify the needs of yourself, another person, or a group of people. The act of looking at the world around you to identify these needs is called need finding.
- To help you find an idea for your engineering project:
- Create a list of all the things that annoy or bother the people around you. Record this bug list in your Design Notebook.
- Mind Map possible design problems, ideas, or areas of interest to you.
- What is the problem or need?
- Who has the problem or need?
- Why is it important to solve?
- Who need(s) what because why.
- _____ need(s) _________ because ________.
Above excerpt from www.sciencebuddies.org