Engineer Design Process

Engineer Design Process

By Jordan Yager

Multiple Choice

What does "constraint" mean in the engineering design process?

• A restriction for possible solutions

• A physical object holding you down

• Any possible solution

Multiple Choice

 If you were given $10 to buy lunch for yourself, what constraint would you have?

• Time

• People to work with

• Budget

Design Process

Multiple Choice

What is the first step in the engineering process?

• Prototype a solution

• Communicate your design

• Define the problem

• Brainstorm multiple solutions

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You have defined your problem and identified all constraints. What is the next step?

• Building a prototype

• Brainstorming ideas

• Testing and evaluating your prototype

Multiple Choice

After the brainstorm you have to:

• Pick the easiest solution

• Abandon the project

• Select the most promising solution

Multiple Choice

Constraints:

• A systematic problem-solving strategy that designers follow to come up with a solution to a problem.

• Are the goals or outcomes for a successful solution. Criteria should be determined before developing possible solutions.

• Are limitations. framed as part of the problem; thing like money, time, size.

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Criteria

• Are limitations. framed as part of the problem; thing like money, time, size.

• Are the goals or outcomes for a successful solution. Criteria should be determined before developing possible solutions.

• A systematic problem-solving strategy that designers follow to come up with a solution to a problem.

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Design Process

• A systematic problem-solving strategy that designers follow to come up with a solution to a problem.

• Are the goals or outcomes for a successful solution. Criteria should be determined before developing possible solutions.

• Are limitations. framed as part of the problem; thing like money, time, size.

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Why is it important to define your problem and your design requirements before coming up with a solution?

• A problem statement identifies the gap between the current problem, and the desired goal, of a process or product.

• The solution is the answer to a problem.

• Are the goals or outcomes for a successful solution. Criteria should be determined before developing possible solutions.

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Step 1: Define a Problem. Pick 3

• What questions did you ask to better appreciate the needs of the client?

• Were there additional questions you should have asked?

• What design considerations did you think about?

• Describe how your team decided

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2: Generate Concepts. Pick 3

• What design ideas did your team consider?

• Were there additional questions you should have asked?

• How did you ensure that everyone on the team contributed ideas?

• Describe how your team decided.

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Step 3: Design a Solution. Pick 2

• How did you test your solution?

• Can you think of drawings or models that might have communicated your ideas better?

• How did you communicate your ideas with your team members? For example, did you use drawings?

• What design considerations did you think about?

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Step 4: Build and Test Solution. Pick 3

• How did you test your solution?

• What design ideas did your team consider?

• How did you use what you learned from your testing to modify your design?

• How far back in the design process did you have to go to make design modifications?

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Step 5: Evaluate a Solution. Pick 3

• Did you evaluate your solution to make sure it meets the requirements identified in Step 1?

• How did you test your solution?

• How can your solution be improved in future iterations?

• Were there additional questions you should have asked?

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Step 6: Present Solution. Pick 3

• What design considerations did you think about?

• How did you share your solution with your classmates?

• What design artifacts did you share?

• How did your audience affect your choice of artifacts to present for your solution?