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Introduction To Engineering - 6

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Answer 33 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Determine whether the following task involves analysis - design or reproduction: Find a way to prevent people from burning their hands while removing a bagel from a toaster oven
Design alone
Defining clear roles - agreeing upon goals - defining procedures - developing effective interpersonal relationships - defining leadership roles
Is never content to arrive at a set of design parameters solely by trial and error
Salaries of the personnel

2. Should be mentioned in technical reports; not only report the successes.
Negative results and design failures
Draw a line through the incorrect entry - date it and initial or sign it
Electricity
Design alone

3. An organizational chart usually does not contain the following
All the documentation
Were all features tested when a new feature was added to be sure that all features interacted properly?
Salaries of the personnel
Information

4. Describes engineering knowledge
The body of facts - scientific principles and mathematical tools
Relates to
Food
Not

5. One person should not take over and be responsible for _______ on a project.
Defining clear roles - agreeing upon goals - defining procedures - developing effective interpersonal relationships - defining leadership roles
Do I like the task of defining the overall objectives?
All the documentation
Shows the dates of the important milestones in chronological order

6. Legitimate questions to ask to determine Does the Product Work?
Design and reproduction
All the documentation
Shows the dates of the important milestones in chronological order
Were all features tested when a new feature was added to be sure that all features interacted properly?

7. The five elements of team building include
Information
Co- workers
Is never content to arrive at a set of design parameters solely by trial and error
Defining clear roles - agreeing upon goals - defining procedures - developing effective interpersonal relationships - defining leadership roles

8. Determine whether the following task involves analysis - design or reproduction: Find the best dimensions of a 16- oz soup can so that a packing box for 24 cans has the smallest volume
Design alone
Implementers
Analysis alone
Advisors

9. A brainstorming session should end
Advisors
Data
All
After all the ideas have been discussed

10. Agricultural engineers are involved in the large scale production of...
Implementers
Food
effectively communicate
document

11. Industrial engineers are concerned with _____ aspect of a product
Analysis alone
All
The body of facts - scientific principles and mathematical tools
Electricity

12. A project timeline accomplishes the following
Shows the dates of the important milestones in chronological order
Draw a line through the incorrect entry - date it and initial or sign it
Analysis alone
Physics

13. Electrical engineers are predominantly involved in the use and control of...
Electricity
The body of facts - scientific principles and mathematical tools
Advisors
Negative results and design failures

14. Which of these questions would NOT be reasonable to ask in choosing a design strategy?
Implementers
Relates to
Shows the dates of the important milestones in chronological order
Which features are critical and which are only desirable?

15. Raw facts and numbers are known as...
Co- workers
Shows the dates of the important milestones in chronological order
Electricity
Data

16. Which of the following groups of people is probably most interested in methodolgy?
Advisors
Data
Design alone
All

17. Which of these characteristics pertain to a good engineer?
Define - first cut - build - document - revise
Is never content to arrive at a set of design parameters solely by trial and error
Analysis alone
Design and reproduction

18. Describes the engineering experience
The body of methods - procedures - techniques and rules of thumb
All
After all the ideas have been discussed
Design alone

19. Which of these sequences shows the correct order of steps in a design cycle?
Do I like the task of defining the overall objectives?
Define - first cut - build - document - revise
The body of facts - scientific principles and mathematical tools
Draw a line through the incorrect entry - date it and initial or sign it

20. It is necessary to _______ in order to be a good engineer.
Chemistry
All building related works
Implementers
effectively communicate

21. Groups of people probably only interested in the big picture
Advisors
After all the ideas have been discussed
The body of methods - procedures - techniques and rules of thumb
Decision - makers

22. One of a professional engineer s responsibilities to his or her employer is to ______ his or her work.
Negative results and design failures
Design and reproduction
Analysis alone
document

23. It is important that each team member understand how his or her task ______ the responsibilities of the team as a whole.
After all the ideas have been discussed
Food
Relates to
Defining clear roles - agreeing upon goals - defining procedures - developing effective interpersonal relationships - defining leadership roles

24. Civil engineers are involved in the design and construction of...
Draw a line through the incorrect entry - date it and initial or sign it
Analysis alone
All building related works
All

25. The proper method of correcting a logbook error is...
All building related works
Co- workers
Not
Draw a line through the incorrect entry - date it and initial or sign it

26. Groups of people probably most interested in clear instructions?
After all the ideas have been discussed
Co- workers
Shows the dates of the important milestones in chronological order
Implementers

27. During brainstorming sessions one should ___ be cautious about putting forth ideas that are not carefully thought through.
Implementers
Define - first cut - build - document - revise
Not
Negative results and design failures

28. In the first year of your job who will most likely be your primary audience of written material?
Design alone
Is never content to arrive at a set of design parameters solely by trial and error
All building related works
Co- workers

29. The relationships among data is known as...
Negative results and design failures
Information
The body of methods - procedures - techniques and rules of thumb
Data

30. Determine whether the following task involves analysis - design or reproduction: Find a way to produce bar- coded badges that can be handed out to the attendees of a technical conference.
effectively communicate
Electricity
document
Design and reproduction

31. A Questions that would NOT be reasonable to ask in defining the overall objectives of a project
Physics
Not
Shows the dates of the important milestones in chronological order
Do I like the task of defining the overall objectives?

32. Which of the following is not an engineering field
Physics
document
Chemistry
Is never content to arrive at a set of design parameters solely by trial and error

33. Chemical engineers apply the principles of which subject to the design of manufacturing and production systems
The body of facts - scientific principles and mathematical tools
Chemistry
All the documentation
Do I like the task of defining the overall objectives?