The EDP

Match the following

• Seeing if the solution works.

• Prototype

• Making a test model that contains only the important design features.

• Communicate

• To share information with others, discuss.

• Test

• To make a revision or change to your original design.

• Redesign

You begin to create a prototype of your design only to find that your solution isn't working at all. What should you do?

• Add more tape

• Go back to an earlier stage and choose another solution

• Blame your resources and give up

• Keep going and hope it is still better than other peoples

Answer explanation

Forcing yourself to continue working on a failed idea is a waste of one of our most precious resources, TIME.

As we develop solutions we expect to fail are run into problems, this is why engineers are good at keeping records. This way we can easily go back and take a different route on our wat to eventual success.

What two things determine whether or not engineering solutions are successful?

• If it stays within the constraints

• If it looks cool

• If it solves a problem

• If it meets the criteria

When finding the solution to an engineering problem, there is/are usually 

• only one possible correct solution
• a very limited number of possible correct solutions
• many possible correct solutions

Answer explanation

Just like we have many different types of light bulbs, we can have many different solutions to any design problem.

You try, you fail

you try, you fail

you try, you fail

It's OK if you fail as long as you keep doing this step in the engineering design process...

• Think about why you failed

• Quit

• Improve upon failure points

• Create a new problem

When a customer gives you a list of must-have features for a new machine design, those are the _______ for your design.

• options

• criteria

• roadblocks

• challenges

Answer explanation

Criteria are the standards by which your design will be judged by the consumer.

At the start of a new project, we have to __________ the problem.

• draw

• distract

• disclose

• define

Answer explanation

Defining the problem does not mean to think about all the things that could go wrong. Instead we are ensuring that everyone understands what the problem is at that moment.

An iterative problem-solving strategy means that ______

• we follow a process or certain steps repeatedly.

• we cannot find a solution and give up.

• we do not have all the information.

• we are required to work by ourselves.

Answer explanation

A new version of a piece of computer hardware or software is called an iteration

When we make a plan, we __________

• decide or arrange things in advance.

• communicate an intention or decision about what we are going to do.

• write and/or present a detailed proposal for doing or achieving something.

• All of the above.

When designers make compromises for things they want during the Engineering Design Process, it is called __________.

• additional criteria.

• more constraints

• increased efficiency

• a trade-off

Answer explanation