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