POE Test 1

Leadership model in which a leader is positioned closely to all members of the team and has short, direct communication:

• Traditional

• Participative

• Flat

• Consultant

The total time needed to plan, prototype, and procure materials and to create marketing strategies, devise tooling, begin production and bring new product to the market is the definition of:

• Time to Market

• Concurrent Engineering

• Speed

• All of these are correct

The Forming stage is when:

• Members pitch in to help one another

• Feelings of cooperation develop

• Team members become acquainted

• All of these are correct

Shared expectations/rules within the team are established during:

• Performing

• Storming

• Adjourning

• Norming

This stage is when a leader may become indistinguishable from the rest of the group, as all members are busy with executing tasks:

• Performing

• Norming

• Storming

• Adjourning

Everyone works together (parallel operation) with marketing, manufacturing, and procurement personnel involved from the design of a product:

• Traditional Engineering Practice

• Time to Market

• Concurrent Engineering

• International Tactics

Optimization simply stated is:

• Blend of engineer’s best practices

• Problem solving and processes

• Doing the most with least

• Means of achieving a desired result

One of the forms of Inputs, Data, are described in the terms of systems as:

• Designed to safeguard a want or need

• Ability to control own environment

• Most critical input an engineer has

• All of these are correct

Systems have these following components:

• Input, Process, Output, Feedback

• Input, Process, Optimization, Outcomes

• Input, Output, Feedback

• Input, Process, Output, Feedback, Optimization

What is a system?

• Problem solving and production

• Doing the most with least

• Means of achieving a desired result

• Blend of engineer’s best practices