FOT Post-Test - Microbit:

The Engineering Design Process follows:

• a. a defined circular path
• b. a defined linear path
• c. an iterative path
• d. a non-repetitive path

When documenting the engineering design process, design portfolios, design journals, sketches and schematics are all used to?

• a. evaluate
• b. communicate
• c. test
• d. optimize

The process of collecting, organizing and analyzing data is called:

• a. calculus
• b. geometry
• c. algebra
• d. statistics

Engineering design principles are used to evaluate designs according to flexibility, balance, function and:

• a. proportion
• b. ethics
• c. economics
• d. historical significance

Identified limitations to the design of a product or system are the:

• a. efficiency
• b. constraints
• c. trade-offs
• d. criteria

When designers make compromises during the engineering design process, the result is often

• a. additional criteria
• b. more constraints
• c. increased efficiency
• d. a trade-off

Mock-ups and prototypes are different types of:

• a. psychological models
• b. conceptual models
• c. physical models
• d. mathematical models

Using a systems model of input, process, output and feedback, when a student is speaking to a friend on a cell phone, the cell phone is part of the ________________.

• a. input
• b. process
• c. output
• d. feedback

Within a larger communication system, a computer keyboard is what type of device?

• a. encoder
• b. transmitter
• c. decoder
• d. storage device

Using non-verbal communication, a traffic sign shaped as a red octagon means a driver should?

• a. caution
• b. yield
• c. stop
• d. go