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