Test your basic knowledge |

Introduction To Engineering - 4

Instructions:

Answer 26 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can study here.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.

This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.

1. Works with customers to incorporate the final product into their specific situation
Test Engineer
Design Engineer
Applications Engineer
Quality Assurance Engineer

2. Makes sure that samples of the product are tested and that the product improves over time
Six steps in defining the problem
Manufacturing Engineer
Process Engineer
Quality Assurance Engineer

3. 1.) axes numbers 2.) axes labels telling number and unit 3.) title or caption for the graph 4.) a legend if there's more than one data series
Environmental Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Four things every proper plot must have
Six steps in defining the problem

4. Devices that aid human life using artificial body parts and implantable devices
Biomedical Engineering
The metric prefixes
Computer Engineering
Mechanical Engineering

5. Large- scale production and manufacturing of products and chemicals
Chemical Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer
Computer Engineering
Three Norman Rules: How to tell if a process is out of control

6. Specializes in fluid mechanics of air foils - turbines - and jet engines
Three Norman Rules: How to tell if a process is out of control
Environmental Engineering
Mechanical Engineering
Aerospace Engineering

7. Designing new materials with useful combinations of properties
Aerospace Engineering
Materials Engineering
Biosystems Engineering
Electrical Engineering

8. Mechanisms for holding - transmitting power - tools - transportation - etc.
Quality Assurance Engineer
The metric prefixes
Mechanical Engineering
Test Engineer

9. Nano: ^-9; micro: ^-6; milli: ^-3; kilo: ^3; mega: ^6; giga: ^9
Quality Assurance Engineer
The metric prefixes
Three Norman Rules: How to tell if a process is out of control
Test Engineer

10. A problem with the measuring device results in a consistently inaccurate measurement every time. Called 'theoretical error' or 'model error.'
Five steps of the design process
Computer Engineering
Error
Biomedical Engineering

11. Simplifies designs for manufacturing and develops methods for mass production
Process Engineer
Manufacturing Engineer
Rule that normal distributions follow
Environmental Engineering

12. Inability to have an exact number. Expressed as 5 -200'
Three Norman Rules: How to tell if a process is out of control
Uncertainty
Test Engineer
Three assumptions for an accurate count

13. Develops experiments to test prototypes before a product is mass - produced
Quality Assurance Engineer
Four things every proper plot must have
Computer Engineering
Test Engineer

14. A.k. s. Agricultural Engineering: mass food production - ecosystems - microbial reactors - etc.
Mechanical Engineering
Environmental Engineering
Civil Engineering
Biosystems Engineering

15. Focus on the efficiency of the manufacturing process
Process Engineer
Three Norman Rules: How to tell if a process is out of control
Four things every proper plot must have
Mechanical Engineering

16. Design of microprocessor architecture; writing software for robots; etc.
Materials Engineering
The difference between engineering notation and scientific notation
Uncertainty
Computer Engineering

17. Examines environmental impacts of proposed installations and civil projects
Five steps of the design process
Process Engineer
Design Engineer
Environmental Engineering

18. Engineering notation only uses exponents that are multiples of 3.
Computer Engineering
The metric prefixes
Mechanical Engineering
The difference between engineering notation and scientific notation

19. 1.) none of the items escape my notice 2.) no items are added or removed while I'm counting 3.) nothing gets counted twice
Biosystems Engineering
Chemical Engineering
Three assumptions for an accurate count
Computer Engineering

20. Comes up with concepts and analysis before anything has been made
Uncertainty
Design Engineer
Six steps in defining the problem
Quality Assurance Engineer

21. 68-95-99.7: 68% of data values fall within one standard deviation of the mean; 95% fall within two standard deviations; 99.7 fall within 3.
Six steps in defining the problem
Rule that normal distributions follow
Three assumptions for an accurate count
Aerospace Engineering

22. 1.) a point falls more than 3 standard deviations away from the mean 2.) 9 points in a row occur on the same side of the mean 3.) 6 points occur with a consistently increasing or decreasing trend
Mechanical Engineering
Six steps in defining the problem
Three Norman Rules: How to tell if a process is out of control
Error

23. City engineering including roads - traffic - sanitation - water - mass transit - heavy industry
Civil Engineering
Manufacturing Engineer
Applications Engineer
Biomedical Engineering

24. 1.) problem-- broad idea of what needs to change 2.) need-- also design goal 3.) design objectives -- specific things to accomplish 4.) criteria-- standards by which the objectives are measured 5.) specifications -- level on each of your criteria tha
Three Norman Rules: How to tell if a process is out of control
Six steps in defining the problem
Manufacturing Engineer
Rule that normal distributions follow

25. Electricity generation - transmission - and distribution; integrated circuits
Electrical Engineering
Design Engineer
Biosystems Engineering
Process Engineer

26. 1.) Define the problem 2.) Brainstorm solutions 3.) Evaluate and narrow ideas to a few 4.) Develop a proof of concept experiment 5.) Optimize
The metric prefixes
Biomedical Engineering
Five steps of the design process
Civil Engineering