Reverse Engineering

Which of these choices is NOT a step in reverse engineering?

• Visual analysis

• Production analysis

• Structural analysis

• Functional analysis

Which of these is NOT a component in a Black Box Model?

• Inputs

• Outputs

• Materials list

• Basic function

Engineers use reverse engineering for all which reasons?

• Documentation

• Discovery

• Investigation

• Product Improvement

• All answers are correct

A building has a walkway that falls and kills and injures many people. What would be the reason to reverse engineering the walkway?

• Documentation

• Discovery

• Investigation

• Maintenance

When starting reverse engineering, you first must do a non-destructive analysis to: identify the purpose of the product, make hypotheses of how the product works, and list inputs and outputs. What is this non-destructive analysis?

• Visual Analysis

• Function Analysis

• Structural Analysis

This is a process where a product is disassembled, uncovering principles behind how a product works. Data is collected to determine how parts interact, what the good and bad features of the product are, what manufacturing process was used, and what caused the product to succeed or fail.

• Reverse Engineering
• Visual Analysis
• Functional Analysis
• Structural Analysis

Disassembly or tear down of a product is a major step in the reverse engineering process, it uncovers the principles behind how a product works. It is always fun to tear apart a product, but nothing will be accomplished if data is not collected during the process. To gather this data, we will use ________________________________.

• Gantt chart

• product disassembly chart

• concurrent engineering table

• a workflow chart

REVERSE ENGINEERING can be used to document patent infringement by another company.

• True

• False

REVERSE ENGINEERING was used for the human genome project

• True

• False

REVERSE ENGINEERING can be used to diagnose what caused a design failure.

• True

• False