Engineering Design Practice

What is the First Step of the Engineering Design Process

• Testing Solutions

• Designing Solutions

• Identifying the Problem

• Planning Solutions

An engineer has designed and built a prototype to improve the brake system of a car. What is the next step that the engineer should take in the process?

• Test the prototype.
• Make sketches of the prototype.
• Identify constraints.
• Collect and analyze the test results. 

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When finding the solution to an engineering problem, there is/are usually 

• only one possible correct solution
• a very limited number of possible correct solutions
• many possible correct solutions

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What is the main goal of the design process?

• To write reports
• To make things
• To make charts and graphs
• To find solutions to problems

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Collecting as many ideas as you can, however good you think they are.

• tradeoff

• brainstorming

• criteria

• contraint

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A real world limit on the solution you are designing, for example, safety, time, money, or materials.

• tradeoff

• constraint

• brainstorming

• criteria

Engineers go through a process usually over and over until they get their solution exactly as they want it.

• True

• False

Juan is going to design a kite. After doing research, Juan creates several different designs and selects the one he wants to use. What are the next two steps Juan should do in the design process?

• build a prototype and test it

• build and finish full-sized kites

• patent the design and sell it

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What determines if you need to redesign your prototype?

• Did people like it?

• Did it meet some or none of the requirements of the criteria and constraints?

• Did I brainstorm enough?

• Is it to safe to build?

Before you can solve a problem, the first thing you have to do is _____

• define the problem
• design your solution
• build a protoype
• test your solution

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