Engineering & Measurement Vocabulary Quiz - Unit 1

a standard that can be used to judge the desirability of a solution; determined when defining a problem in the engineering process

• tradeoff

• constraint

• prototype

• criteria

the giving up of one thing in return for another, often applied to the engineering design process

• tradeoff

• criteria

• constraint

• decision matrix

a restriction or limitation that a design or solution must stay within, often determined when defining a problem

• criteria

• constraint

• tradeoff

• iteration

a repetition of a process to generate new results or solutions

• prototype

• criteria

• iteration

• constraint

Digits that are meaningful in terms of accuracy or precision; they carry meaning for the measurement

• significant figures

• accuracy

• percent error

• precision

the closeness of measurements to a specific value

• accuracy

• precision

• significant figures

• iteration

the closeness of a series of measurements to each other

• accuracy

• precision

• significant figures

• iteration

a calculation of the difference between a measured value and the accepted value

• precision

• iteration

• percent error

• percent yield

When creating a new soup, the texture should not be mushy. This is an example of what?

• a criteria

• a constraint

• a tradeoff

• an iteration

When creating a car seat, more expensive materials must be used to ensure the car seat is safe in a crash. This is an example of what?

• a criteria

• a constraint

• a tradeoff

• an iteration