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Introduction To Mechanical Engineering Design
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engineering
Instructions:
Answer 47 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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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. The task that the object has to perform
Dissection/Reverse engineering
Function
Conceptual design
User
2. Presentation - report
Final documentation
Enumeration
Series system
Metrics
3. A way to measure achievement of an objective
Assembly drawings
Clients problem statement
Metrics
Problem definition
4. ALL parts must function for system to work
Manufacturability
Affordability
Series system
Fantasy analogy
5. Establish funcions - establish requirements - establish means for functions - generate design alternatives - refine and apply metrics to design alternatives - choose a design
Constraints
Conceptual design
Client
Design communication
6. What if I were to do the opposite?
Reliability
Contrasting solutions
Procedural requirements
Layout drawings
7. Size is proportional to how many designs there are
Procedural requirements
Assembly drawings
Design space
Contrasting solutions
8. In a design with multiple systems the points where systems could interact with each other are known as boundaries.
Function means tree
Designer
Dissection/Reverse engineering
Interface requirements
9. Understanding of manufacturing processes - Design for manufacturing process
Procedural requirements
Manufacturability
Preliminary design
C- sketch method
10. # of group members - # of ideas - (# of group members -1)
Dissection/Reverse engineering
6-3-5 method
Problem definition
Norming
11. List functions as they come to you
Performance requirements
Manufacturability
Enumeration
Reliability
12. Generaly vague - possibly biased toward a particular solution - will need to be revised
Direct analogy
Final documentation
Clients problem statement
Performance requirements
13. Take apart a similar item asking - 'How does it do that?'
Prescriptive requirements
Reliability
Fantasy analogy
Dissection/Reverse engineering
14. If this were a sci- fi scenario
Series system
Symbolic analogy
Forming
Fantasy analogy
15. Specific units in yeild specific units out
Dimensional consistency
Symbolic analogy
Dissection/Reverse engineering
Contrasting solutions
16. Clarify objectives - establish metrics for objectives - identify constraints - revise clients problem statement
Gallery method
Enumeration
Problem definition
Reliability
17. Who will lead
Metrics
Storming
Requirements
Symbolic analogy
18. Things that the design must NOT be or do
Continguous solutions
Metrics
Black box/transparent box
Constraints
19. Model and analyze the chosen design - test and evaluate the chosen design
Requirements
Detail drawings
Adjourning
Preliminary design
20. Something is physically like something else
Direct analogy
Manufacturability
Dissection/Reverse engineering
Contrasting solutions
21. A box that list the various inputs and outputs to a system.
Metrics
Problem definition
Black box/transparent box
Norming
22. Start with one function - expand each branch until it is no longer practical
Clients problem statement
Manufacturability
Function means tree
Design communication
23. Team is called together
Function
Forming
Requirements
Design communication
24. 'If I were the object...'
Forming
C- sketch method
Personal analogy
Detailed design
25. How an attribute or behavioral will be calculated
Continguous solutions
Procedural requirements
Affordability
Conceptual design
26. Drawings showing how individual parts should fit together
C- sketch method
Adjourning
Assembly drawings
Design space
27. Settling into place
Norming
Personal analogy
Dimensional consistency
6-3-5 method
28. Project finished
Detailed design
Objectives
Series system
Adjourning
29. Working drawings showing major parts - without tolerances
Dimensional consistency
Layout drawings
Reliability
Black box/transparent box
30. Values for attributes
Adjourning
Requirements
Interface requirements
Prescriptive requirements
31. Actual work
Final documentation
Direct analogy
Performing
Conceptual design
32. Absolute limits - what the design MUST do
Parallel system
Design communication
Requirements
Direct analogy
33. Those who want the product
Forming
Fantasy analogy
Client
Detailed design
34. Those who create the desired design
Detail drawings
C- sketch method
Designer
Problem definition
35. Engineering economics
Dissection/Reverse engineering
Manufacturability
Detail drawings
Affordability
36. ANY part must function for the system to work
Preliminary design
Parallel system
Function means tree
Forming
37. Something related that serves a different purpose
Layout drawings
Design space
Continguous solutions
Fantasy analogy
38. Those who will use the final product
User
Performance requirements
Continguous solutions
Design communication
39. Using metaphors and similies
Design space
Metrics
Symbolic analogy
Contrasting solutions
40. Refine and optimize chosen design - assign and fix design details
Performance requirements
Series system
Gallery method
Detailed design
41. Probablility that a system will not fail
Reliability
Conceptual design
Detail drawings
Personal analogy
42. Everyone comments on the sketches
Design communication
Parallel system
Conceptual design
Gallery method
43. Drawings of individual parts with every detail filled in
Dissection/Reverse engineering
Layout drawings
Prescriptive requirements
Detail drawings
44. Presentation - report
Layout drawings
Procedural requirements
Design communication
Metrics
45. Written ideas are replaced with sketches
Constraints
Final documentation
Preliminary design
C- sketch method
46. What should it be?
Norming
Objectives
Black box/transparent box
6-3-5 method
47. Describe successful functional behavior
Objectives
Performance requirements
User
Design communication