Introduction to the Engineering Design Process Assessment

______ are special requirements that a product has met or must meet.

• Criteria

• Constraint

• Consequences

• Considerations

_______ is a limit, such as appearance, budget, space, materials, or human capital, in the design process.

• Criteria

• Constraint

• Consequence

• Consideration

_______ is a full size working model of the design. Prototypes are always made to test the design. Without a prototype, the engineering design team would not be able to see if its solution would actually operate.

• CAD

• Sketch

• Prototype

• Scale Model

An ____________________ is the documentation of the steps, calculations, and evaluation of the engineering design process for a particular item. Entries contain all sketches, calculations for the design, and entries are dated. There is more than one correct answer.

• engineering notebook

• engineering design process log

• google doc

• lab handout

_________________ is generating and developing ideas for new products.

• Brainstorming

• Modeling

• Prototyping

• Scaling

What are the stages of designing in order?

• identify a need

  make a prototype

  test a prototype

  conduct research

  generate ideas

• conduct research

  identify a need

  make a prototype

  test a prototype

  generate ideas

• identify a need

  conduct research

  generate ideas

  make a prototype

  test a prototype

• generate ideas

  identify a need

  conduct research

  make a prototype

  test a prototype

Which of the following are examples of gathering research when designing? There is more than one correct answer.

• Observing people/clients and their reactions

• Asking people/clients questions and recording their answers (surveying)

• Finding information about a similar product that already exists using the internet and books

• Writing a report about the product

A technical design decision...

• evaluates the effectiveness of the product.

• determines the cost of the product.

• explains how a product is constructed.

• explains how a product works.

Designing solutions to problems in the main purpose of engineering.

• True

• False

During the defining the problem stage, engineers might...

• conduct research.

• suggest a solution.

• find out what the final solution needs to be able to do.

• determine the criteria and constraints.