WorksheetsIntroduction to Engineering Concepts Quiz
Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 8mins
Which type of engineering deals with the design, analysis, and maintenance of machines and engines?
Mechanical Engineering
Civil Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
What is the main goal of the engineering design process?
To build, create, and design new technologies to solve problems
To measure distances accurately
To construct buildings only
To study chemical reactions
Which of the following is NOT a metric measurement?
Yards
Meters
Centimeters
Kilometers
If you are asked to identify the problem in the engineering design process, what should you do?
Identify what needs or wants exist
Build a prototype immediately
Test the final product
Ignore constraints
What is a trade off in design?
Improving all aspects at once
Improving one aspect at the expense of another
Ignoring design constraints
Making the design more expensive
Why are iterations important in the design process?
They help continuously improve a concept, design, or product
They make the process slower
They increase the cost
They reduce communication
What is the main goal of the "Test and Evaluate" step?
To create sketches
To see if the design works as anticipated and meets all criteria
To market the product
To redesign the prototype
What is a patent?
A government authority or license giving a right for a set period, especially the sole right to exclude others from making, using, or selling an invention.
A type of copyright for books.
A license to sell goods in a market.
A certificate for completing a course.
What does a design patent protect?
The unique visual qualities of a manufactured item
The process of making a product
The chemical composition of a product
The ability to grow a plant from a seed
Which of the following is true about a plant patent?
It protects a new and unique plant’s key characteristics from being copied, sold, or used by others.
It protects the design of a machine.
It protects the software code of a program.
It protects the name of a company.
An engineer has designed and built a prototype to improve the brake system of a car. What is the next step that the engineer should take in the process?
Test the prototype.
Make sketches of the prototype.
Identify constraints.
Collect and analyze the test results.
What is engineering?
Using science to solve practical problems to better our environment.
Using math and science to solve practical problems to better our society, economy and environment.
Using math and history to recover past discoveries.
Using man made items to understand nature.
________ is the creative application of technology to design a system, product, or process to solve a given problem or meet a given need.
Social Design
Mechanical Design
Engineering Design
Problem Design
