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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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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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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This is the phase where you use your design to build your experiment.

• design

• create

• test

• present

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Engineers are people who design and build things to solve _____

• riddles
• puzzles
• crosswords
• problems

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When solving problems, the series of steps that engineers follow is called _____

• the engineering method
• the engineering process
• the engineering problem
• the scientific method

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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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