Engineering and Design

What is the First Step of the Engineering Design Process

• Testing Solutions

• Designing Solutions

• Identifying the Problem

• Planning Solutions

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. 

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

When generating a solution, a designer creates either a model or a ________________.

• drawing
• report
• design brief
• prototype

What is the main goal of the design process?

• To write reports
• To make things
• To make charts and graphs
• To find solutions to problems

What order do the steps of the Design Process go in?

• Identify Problem, Plan Solutions, Create Model, Test Model, Reflect and Redesign

• Imagine, Ask, Plan, Improve, Create, Communicate

• Ask, Plan, Create, Imagine, Improve, Communicate

• Ask, Improve, Communicate, Brainstorm, Create, Plan

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 partner

• Keep going and hope it will be ok

Engineers plan on developing a new drill for use on oil rigs. What should the engineers do first in order to develop the new drill?

• Conduct research on features for a new drill
• Determine the materials needed to build the new drill
• Build a prototype of the new drill

A design team built a prototype robot that is a vacuum cleaner. Their goal is for the robot to be able to vacuum people’s homes on its own with no human supervision. How will the team know if the robot prototype works after it is completed?

• Place it in someone’s home, and see if it can vacuum the carpets on its own.
• They should go ahead and build a prototype of this design.
• Place it in a grassy field, and observe to see if it can vacuum up dirt and sand.

Your group plans to build a model plant. When should you decide upon the criteria you will use to test your technological design?

• After the model is built
• after the model is tested
•  Before the model is built