Engineering Design Process

1. What is the Engineering Design Process?

• A computer program about engineering

• An assembly line that builds car parts

• A test that professional engineers take every year to test their knowledge

• A series of steps that engineers follow to come up with a solution to a problem

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If an engineer is testing a new product and notices that it does not always perform well, the engineer should

• Quit, because only bad engineers have product ideas

• Ignore the test results and continue to the next step of the Design Process

• Go back and change the design, then test the product again

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The Engineering Design Process starts by asking three questions about problems that you observe. Which of the questions below is NOT one of the three questions that help you define the problem for the first step of the Engineering Design Process?

• What is the problem or need?

• What materials do I need?

• Who has the problem or need?

• Why is the problem important to solve?

If you wanted to build a new and improved type of sneaker, a good way to do background research and specify requirements for your new shoe would be to

• Go to a shoe store and take notes about the important features of the sneakers

• Look around at your school and take notes about what type of sneakers are the most popular

• Talk to your friends about what they like and do not like about the sneakers they own

• All of these

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The testing step of the Engineering Design Process usually involves several rounds of testing and redesigning before finding the final design

• True

• False

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The engineering design process is an iterative process. This means

• The engineering design process can not be used in all areas of engineering.

• New ideas or information might make an engineer repeat parts of the process over and over

• An engineer has to go through every step of the process twice before the solution is any good

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A prototype is

• The description of the problem that we are trying to solve

• An operating version of a solution to see if it will work

• A document listing the features that must be included in the final product

• All of these

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The last step of the Design Process is to

• communicate results

• iterate

• create a prototype

• analyze data

The problem should be written:

• [What] need(s) [who] because [why].

• [Who] need(s) [what] because [why].

• [What] need(s) [why] because

  [who].

• [Who] need(s) [why] because [what].

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Design solutions may include brainstorming, doodling, and creating sketches

• True

• False

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