- Engineer = An engineer is a professional practitioner of engineering, concerned with applying scientific knowledge, mathematics, and ingenuity to develop solutions for technical problems.
- Designer = A designer is a person who designs. More formally, a designer is an agent that specifies the structural properties of a design object.
- Engineering Notebook = An inventor's notebook is used by inventors, scientists and engineers to record their ideas, invention process, experimental tests and results and observations.
- Criteria =A standard, rule, or test on which a judgment or decision can be based.
- Constraint = Constraint is the element factor or a subsystem that works as a bottleneck.
- Innovation = Innovation is the application of new solutions that meet new requirements, inarticulate needs, or existing market needs.
- Prototype = A prototype is an early sample, model or release of a product built to test a concept or process or to act as a thing to be replicated or learned from.
- Product = Something produced by human or mechanical effort or by a natural process.
- Design Brief = A design brief is a written document for a design project developed in concert by a person representing the business need for design and the designer.
- Design Process = Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (September 2009) The engineering design process is the formulation of a plan to help an engineer build a product with a specified performance goal.
