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| free association | the act of describing as many ideas as possible without any concern about their ability to be accomplished |
| common constraints | the conditions that are in all engineering design problems |
| problem | an unknown quantity or something that needs to be changed in a situation |
| future process | a brainstorming technique in which engineers intentially focus on solutions that are not possible yet because of technological or scientific llimitations |
| specific constraints | the conditions that are directly related to the engineering design problem at hand |
| criteria | the guidelines to follow in order to successfully solve the problem |
| freewriting | an individual brainstorming technique in which an engineer generates possible ideas by writing them down |
| brainstorming web | a method of linking different ideas together by finding commonalities between them |
