By adopting this slightly adjusted paradigm, students will recognize that the EDP does not rely upon rigid thinking, but provokes creative and outside-the-box thinking. The purpose of learning engineering design is to encourage students to interact with engineering in hands-on activities as a practical application of math and science knowledge. Through actual practice of engineering, high school students learn that it is not simply building things. Instead, it is a process through which structures are designed, through which clear identification and definition
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of the need or problem, research, planning and brainstorming, testing and evaluation, and communication are necessary.