MIDTERM EXAM - Prin of ENGINEERING

What time period was the wheel invented?

• Iron Age

• Stone Age

• Renaissance

• Bronze Age

The steam engine was developed and used during the

• Renaissance

• 20th Century

• The Industrial Revolution

• Information Age

What is the engineering design process?

• a series of steps used to guide engineers as they solve problems

• a device or process originated after study or experimenting

• series of steps to investigate nature and it's composition

• a profession

What is step 1 of the Engineering Design Process?

• Research the Problem

• Develop a Solution

• Build and Test a prototype

• Identify the Problem

NIKE wants to develop a shoe that will increase speed. What process would be used?

• Engineering Design Process

• Scientific method

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

• group work

• constraints

• tradeoff

• brainstorming

An improvement to an existing product is called an____________________

• Invention

• Technology

• Innovation

• Artifact

A full scale working model used to test a design is called a ____________.

• scale model

• prototype

• mock up

• conceptual model

A limitation or restriction

• creativity

• criteria

• constraint

• consequences

Guidelines that define the success of a solution are called...

• criteria

• constraint

• creativity

• tradeoff