A good team leader:

	a. must be willing to countermand marginal decisions.
	b. must never override his or her own thoughts and opinions in favor of the rest of the group’s.
	c. must act as both a buffer and interface between his or her team and those the team is working with and/or for.
	d. must not hold a different position in the decision-making process.

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All of the following are examples of topics that could go into your design notebook except:

	a. equipment and materials requirements, unsourced quotes, and possibilities of future work.
	b. conference and meeting notes, reports of field work, and problematic experiments.
	c. scheduling considerations, process analysis, and questions for discussion.
	d. legal and ethical issues, flaws in project design, and testing procedures.

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All of the following are possible items to include in a progress report except:

	a. the current activities and goals being engaged.
	b. tabulated testing data results showing performance of design.
	c. the impact of events on work schedule and deadlines.
	d. additional resources wanted or needed to complete the project.

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All of the following are potentially challenging hurdles in new business development, EXCEPT:

	a. Underestimating the competition
	b. Exploring additional capabilities
	c. Relying on technological superiority
	d. Not fulfilling customer needs

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Engineering drawings are important because they:

	a. produce an artistic interpretation of a design for marketing.
	b. convince customers that work is being done.
	c. fully and clearly define requirements for engineered items.
	d. help the brainstorming process by taking engineers away from calculations and thinking artistically.

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In order to be a great team leader you must:

	a. be quiet and modest.
	b. always stop and think about where you want to go with a project at every step along the way.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Personal time management is a set of tools that allows for:

	a. monitoring project progress.
	b. eliminating wastage.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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What are the two main skill sets that a group must develop to function properly?

	a. Managerial skills and interpersonal skills
	b. Individual autonomy skills and interpersonal skills
	c. Individual autonomy skills and managerial skills
	d. Interpersonal skills and task devotion skills

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What commonly makes the design process difficult?

	a. An ill-designed problem or purpose
	b. Open-ended design problems with a wide variety of potential solutions
	c. An ill-structured problem, which cannot be solved with simple algorithms
	d. All of the above

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What does good project planning involve?

	a. Identifying early the tasks that must be achieved and keeping steadfast to your approach
	b. Understanding the resources (money, personnel, facilities, and time available), but being willing to ignore those resources to achieve the perfect design
	c. Making sure that there is an overlap of tasks by different team members to insure things are always accomplished
	d. Identifying the specific tasks that must be accomplished for each element of the project

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What does it mean to design with concurrent business development?

	a. Making sure to understand customer desires while engaging in design
	b. Leveraging design risks against optimal profit potential
	c. Applying a stage-gate process from initial investigation to final design delivery
	d. Using cross disciplinary teams, which allow engineers to understand the business directives and managers to understand the technology development

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What is a Gantt chart?

	a. A metric comparison tool used to present and organize the various measurable design criteria
	b. A table used to collect various benchmarking results found
	c. A project-planning tool used to represent the timing of tasks required to complete a project
	d. A tool used to organize the project tasks of each team member, organized by individual ranking within the group

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What is engineering design?

	a. The production of a drawing, which shows the function and workings of a thing or device to be built or made
	b. A systematic process for things/devices whose form and function achieve stated objectives given certain constraints
	c. The thought process of an engineer when formulating an idea to pursue
	d. A loose set of rules meant to constrain the decision making process to guarantee a predetermined outcome

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What should be your first step in organizing your final report?

	a. Creating a title page
	b. Developing an executive summary
	c. Collecting and organizing figures, tables, and formulas used in your design
	d. Creating an outline

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When addressing a problem within a team, you should:

	a. focus directly on the problem as it appears to others.
	b. work toward a solution without suggesting something is wrong, so as to prevent negative reactions.
	c. not look back if the problem appears to be fixed; always look forward.
	d. identify whether the problem is a tangible action that can be influenced.

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When creating a progress report, which of the following is not good advice?

	a. Don’t address problems encountered unless they will require you to adjust deliverables.
	b. Be sure to include the project description even if it is a later progress report.
	c. Be willing to propose changes in the project requirements if necessary.
	d. Beware of promising early completion of deliverables even if they appear easy to meet.

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When scheduling your task times, you should make sure to include information about all of the following except:

	a. task interdependencies.
	b. the metrics appropriate to each task.
	c. project milestones.
	d. start and end points of each task.

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When using a visual aid for a presentation, you should:

	a. include as much information as you can so as to present the full scope of the work.
	b. use catchy visual format changes and transitions that keep the audience in suspense during the presentation.
	c. ensure that the visual aid can serve as a standalone presentation of the material.
	d. ensure that every visual aid serves a distinct purpose within your presentation.

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Which of following is true about engineering sketches within your design notebook?

	a. It is not important to label your sketches.
	b. Sketches do not need to be precise
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following is not a major component of a design report?

	a. Problem definition
	b. Methodology
	c. Design description
	d. Evaluation

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Which of the following is NOT a part of the design process?

	a. Marketing the final product
	b. Generating design concepts
	c. Prototyping and simulating a design
	d. Identifying the problem

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Which of the following is not a positive team member motivator?

	a. The work itself.
	b. Recognition of one’s work.
	c. The ability to present problems to authority.
	d. Opportunity for advancement.

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Which of the following is not a responsible action taken by a team leader to encourage quality?

	a. Enabling failure within the group
	b. Encouraging lighthearted laughter at other team member’s actions
	c. Using plural pronouns to describe decisions, such as “we decided” and “our decision”
	d. Establishing rules the group should adhere to

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Which of the following is not a valid way of documenting your design?

	a. Design notebooks.
	b. Phone calls with customer.
	c. Presentations with customer.
	d. Final report.

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Which of the following is not a valid way to deal with an impossible deadline?

	a. Extending the deadline
	b. Getting the deliverable redesigned to something practical to achieve
	c. Pursuing, or even demanding, more resources to scale up efforts
	d. Pushing forward with a delivery that does not meet criteria but is accomplished on time

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Which of the following is not good advice for writing a design report?

	a. The report can use passive or active voice, as long as it is kept consistent.
	b. Writing should be done at roughly an eighth-grade level for clarity.
	c. The report should be broken up into sections and subsections, with at least one heading per page.
	d. Paragraphs should have only one idea unless they appear too short.

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Which of the following is not good advice when giving a presentation?

	a. Present your information as a flowing narrative.
	b. Repeat important points multiple times.
	c. Speak toward the understanding of your audience; some audiences will need greater explanations than others.
	d. Make the information the dominant focal point, because it is more important than your personality.

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Which of the following is the least correct description of a team leader?

	a. A planner with a long-term goal.
	b. A provider with access to materials and information a team may need.
	c. A protector who will help a team through problems.
	d. A peer who is careful not to exert an authoritative role above other members.

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Which of the following is the most true statement about a design notebook?

	a. It serves as the official documentation for patenting.
	b. The notebook’s audience is the author, not outside individuals.
	c. It should be kept formatted consistently and treated as formal documentation.
	d. Its main purpose it to record experimental results from testing.

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Which of the following should not be included in your design notebook?

	a. Dates of entries.
	b. Notes explaining your calculations and sketches.
	c. Your contact information.
	d. Transcripts of conversations with resources.

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Which of the following would be considered appropriate to include on a Gantt chart?

	a. A list of design metrics
	b. Current technology research results
	c. An estimation of the project cost
	d. A prototype testing time frame

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Why are groups considered a great resource for problem solving?

	a. They allow individuals to independently be less efficient, yet solve complex problems.
	b. They allow a single individual to rise to the top as a leader and help unify more voices to one mindset.
	c. They help the self-esteem of individuals who may not be able to solve a problem by allowing them smaller roles within a design.
	d. They combine individual mindsets to help provide solutions to potentially unfamiliar problems.

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Why is an analysis-based design approach important?

	a. It proves you have learned the material in previous engineering courses.
	b. It allows you to demonstrate the validity of a design, both internally and to your customer.
	c. It is time consuming and provides a billable expense to charge your customer.
	d. It allows you to step back and reflect on various design ideas.

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Why is it important to monitor a schedule of tasks to be accomplished and the activities required to do those tasks?

	a. To insure that resources can be reallocated effectively to accomplish project commitments
	b. To make sure the schedule is followed as planned
	c. To serve as documentation of billable hours spent
	d. To allow the engineers not to have to think about the individual pieces of the project

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All of the following should be considered when establishing a product price except:

	a. pricing and value of similar products.
	b. a maximum payback period required to ensure a return on the investment.
	c. the personal finances of the individuals designing the product.
	d. the product’s image and potential popularity.

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ASME, SAE, and AIAA are acronyms of various:

	a. environmental regulation groups.
	b. professional engineering societies.
	c. standards within the code of engineering ethics.
	d. materials selection databases.

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Designing for assembly is a process that includes all but which of the following?

	a. Minimizing tolerances
	b. Identifying part relevance
	c. Identifying the assembly process steps
	d. Estimating the cost of assembly

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Manufacturing costs include all of the following except:

	a. components.
	b. assembly.
	c. overhead.
	d. distribution.

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Materials design charts:

	a. allow for final selection of materials.
	b. show balances of material properties.
	c. usually only show particular material subsets.
	d. All of the above

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Plagiarism is defined as:

	a. uncredited verbatim copying of more than half of an article or piece of writing.
	b. credited verbatim copying of a major portion of a paper or piece of writing without clear delineation.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Product costs are:

	a. equivalent to the cost of materials plus the cost of labor.
	b. variably defined company to company.
	c. never calculated using nonmanufacturing costs.
	d. driven mainly by clerical and administrative costs.

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Professional engineering societies:

	a. provide resources such as where to obtain your engineering license.
	b. act as consultant services that hire contract engineers to help finish product development and analysis.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Unidirectional assembly entails:

	a. assembling a product by adding parts one by one from the same direction.
	b. designing parts that have symmetry so orientation during assembly is less crucial.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Variable costs:

	a. are directly related to the volume of products manufactured.
	b. can consist of both direct cost such as manufacturing and indirect costs such as overhead.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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What is a life cycle assessment?

	a. An attempt to calculate the life span of a product in operation
	b. An attempt to describe the environmental consequence of the activity being studied
	c. An attempt to determine the effect (if any) a product has on general public life expectancy
	d. An attempt to determine the financial costs of a product, from initial development through manufacturing and repair

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What is poka-yoke?

	a. Designing for efficient joining and fastening by removing screws and bolts
	b. Designing a product so that it can be assembled in multiple subassemblies
	c. Creating products without sharp or fragile components that are risks to assemblers
	d. Mistake-proofing a product design and assembly

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What would be a valid reason to consider using a trade secret instead of a patent?

	a. It prevents competitors from reverse engineering your products.
	b. It provides legal protection from others attempting to replicate your product.
	c. It protects confidential information from being disclosed.
	d. It guarantees a longer time period of protection.

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When considering materials selection:

	a. manufacturing is a secondary concern compared to performance.
	b. aesthetics are of little importance compared to mechanical properties.
	c. the selection process doesn’t change whether designing for a system or a component.
	d. the function of the product will heavily dictate potential choices.

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When is it alright to omit data from a set that is an outlier of expectation?

	a. When the data can be experimentally determined as nonrepeatable and nonrepresentative
	b. When the data points are nonnumerous and detract from the message trying to be presented
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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When the consequences of a study of risk are unclear:

	a. it is best to err on the side of public safety.
	b. it is acceptable to cautiously proceed while also conducting further studies.
	c. the inconclusive results should not be disclosed and should be treated as nonexistent.
	d. All of the above

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Which holds the most importance when weighing ethical considerations?

	a. The safety, health, and welfare of the public
	b. The interests of an employer or customer
	c. An engineer’s career and reputation
	d. All of the above are equally important

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Which is considered an indirect material social cost?

	a. Recyclability of the material
	b. Consumption of energy used in the manufacturing and processing of a material
	c. Emissions released during the manufacturing and processing of a material
	d. Toxicity of the material

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Which is not part of an acceptable risk?

	a. It is freely assumed with informed consent.
	b. It is unknown.
	c. It is equitably distributed.
	d. It is properly compensated.

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Which is the least accepted environmental impact category of concern?

	a. Resource use
	b. Human health
	c. Ecological consequence
	d. Damage to a man-made environment

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Which of following is not an example of a process selection issue?

	a. Wood cannot be processed by molding to shape.
	b. Refractory metals cannot be processed by high pressure casting.
	c. A steel casted part may be too heavy for a product design.
	d. Machining of composites can detrimentally harm anisotropic properties.

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Which of the following is most true when choosing the material and processing method?

	a. There is normally a perfect material for every design, although it may take a great deal of research to find.
	b. The selection procedure should not start until a preliminary design has been finalized.
	c. Priorities will need to be ranked and trade-offs will have to be made.
	d. Constraints should come from cost alone.

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Which of the following is not a type of patent?

	a. Copyright, which protects against the unauthorized copying of an expression
	b. Plant, which protects against any new and distinct variety of plant life
	c. Design, which protects the ornamental appearances of an article
	d. Utility, which protects the utility of an article

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Which of the following is not a valid factor in processing selection?

	a. The capability of a given material to be shaped to a geometry
	b. The ability of two materials to be joined at given geometries
	c. The environmental resistance of a chosen material
	d. The necessity and capability of surface treating of materials

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Which of the following is not a way engineers can uphold their ethical responsibilities?

	a. Using their knowledge and skills for the enhancement of human welfare
	b. Being honest and impartial and serving with fidelity the public, their employers, and clients
	c. No matter the circumstances, maintaining a principled duty of obligation to a client or employee when in contract
	d. Striving to increase the competence and prestige of the engineering profession

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Which of the following is not a way engineers can design to reduce the social effects of materials usage?

	a. Dematerializing a part
	b. Changing societal expectations as to environmental and social impacts
	c. Substituting materials
	d. Sourcing recycled or scrapped materials rather than virgin ones

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Which of the following is not an element required in order to patent a new idea?

	a. Must employ a real-world use that does not harm society
	b. Must be demonstrably real and functional
	c. Must not have been previously known, sold, or used
	d. Must not be readily deduced from publicly available information

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Which of the following is not good advice when designing for assembly?

	a. Reduce the number of parts to as minimal a number as possible to achieve the design.
	b. Try to use flexible parts and interconnectors to make tolerancing easier.
	c. Use common, standardized parts whenever possible.
	d. Design for parts orientation and handling.

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Which of the following is the least likely source to yield information for final materials selection?

	a. Manufacturer’s literature
	b. Textbooks
	c. Databooks
	d. Internet sites

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Which of the following is the most correct statement on engineering risk?

	a. All engineering involves risk.
	b. The difference in risk between new innovation and smaller changes is negligible.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following protects against the shape and color of a product?

	a. Copyright
	b. Utility patent
	c. Trade secret
	d. Trademark

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Which statement is most true?

	a. Cost is the most important factor to consider when selecting materials for a design.
	b. Performance is the most important factor to consider when selecting materials for a design.
	c. Cost and performance are equally important when selecting materials for a design.
	d. Cost and performance hold different importance in different designs.

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A prototype is best defined as:

	a. a physical representation of a completed final design.
	b. anything that approximates any aspects of your final product or design.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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All of the following are questions an engineer should be asking while conducting research except:

	a. what is wrong with the way things are currently being done?
	b. will people pay more money for a better solution than currently exists?
	c. can the customer be convinced the problem is completely solved when a solution only partially fixes it?
	d. what has been written about the problem we are attempting to solve?

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An engineering test requires all but which of the following?

	a. A model of the device to be tested
	b. A testing facility or testing space
	c. Instrumentation suitable for reasonably measuring variables and outcomes
	d. A full prototype to test

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At a minimum, a device should be tested across a range that represents:

	a. the expected median and extremes of the operating conditions.
	b. the expected median and extremes as determined by the factor of safety applied to the operating conditions.
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Concept generation is all of the following, except:

	a. a defined process.
	b. a predictable process.
	c. a process capable of being taught and learned.
	d. a simple, inexpensive process.

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Design metrics should:

	a. only be expressed as objective points with unit-based numerical ranges
	b. include both practical and impractical considerations
	c. incorporate only the most important design criteria
	d. be derived from customer needs

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Design requirements in product design specifications must:

	a. reflect the customer’s needs.
	b. differentiate the product for the competition.
	c. be technically and economically feasible.
	d. All of the above

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During design optimization, we describe the different designs through which of the following?

	a. Objective functions
	b. Design variables
	c. Constraints and design requirements
	d. Computations

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Evaluation methods include all of the following except:

	a. metric derivation.
	b. a review of the drawings and simulations.
	c. physical inspections of a prototype.
	d. operational tests of a physical prototype

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Genetic algorithms, simulated annealing, and tabu searches are all examples of what?

	a. Gradient-based optimization methods
	b. Heuristic optimization methods
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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In the brainstorm process, team members should not:

	a. have a designated facilitator.
	b. allow interruptions.
	c. agree on a final stop time.
	d. stop at increments to evaluate the ideas.

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Quality assurance testing is best defined as a method that:

	a. validates that a design will perform adequately with the least desirable material or subassemblies designated.
	b. demonstrates the validity of a design to solving the required needs.
	c. investigates the performance of a design over time or repeated operation.
	d. None of the above

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Target values for the metrics as defines the product design specifications should be derived from all but which of the following?

	a. Benchmarked competition
	b. Expected competitor’s future capabilities
	c. The target market segment
	d. None of the above

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The concept screening process should entail which of the following?

	a. Developing a selection matrix
	b. Rating and ranking the concepts
	c. Selecting a concept for further refinement
	d. All of the above

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What is engineering design?

	a. The creative and iterative method of conceiving and developing components, systems, and processes
	b. The integration of engineering, basic, and mathematical sciences to achieve work under constraint
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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What should be done with collected customer needs after a research period?

	a. Hold until later design stages for comparison to the initial prototype
	b. Organize into a hierarchy based on difficulty to incorporate, so that the most challenging tasks can be ignored
	c. Organize into a hierarchy alphabetically, so as not to impart bias on importance
	d. Organize into a hierarchy with a numerical ranking system related to importance

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When deciding upon a concept during the selection process, which of the following is most important?

	a. Making sure an experienced designer controls the decision-making process
	b. Not forgetting the customer’s expectations and needs
	c. Making sure the manager has the final say in the decision-making process
	d. Ignoring cost

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When developing the Statement of Work, which of the following should not be included?

	a. A description of what will and won’t be done to accomplish the design
	b. A time frame of the work and tasks to be accomplished
	c. A complete list of metrics the team will undertake to incorporate into the design
	d. None of the above

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Which is the following is not a valid factor to consider when determining whether to prototype or simulate?

	a. The role a full-scale prototype plays within the acceptance of a design
	b. The cost of developing a prototype
	c. The time it will take to develop a prototype
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following are appropriate ways of conducting researching for a design project?

	a. Using the internet and libraries to obtain documents, journal articles, catalogs, and other information of appropriate applicability
	b. Looking at available “solutions” in the market and attempting to reverse engineer to learn about their function
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following are not steps taken in the engineering design process?

	a. Developing a marketing model for selling a product
	b. Conducting research
	c. Defining a problem
	d. Analyzing possible solutions

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Which of the following best defines a situation when engineering models should be used?

	a. To help select a design concept by determining its basic facility
	b. To optimize an already selected and developed design concept
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following is an accurate description about a Statement of Work?

	a. It should not include figures or diagrams.
	b. It should be descriptive and complete in breadth.
	c. It should include definitions for all technical terms.
	d. All of the above

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Which of the following is most true about engineering estimates?

	a. They are often more useful than exact answers.
	b. They are useful through every aspect of the design stage except concept generation and selection.
	c. They should be used minimally throughout a design project because they lack an absolute solution.
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following is not a benefit of prototyping?

	a. It helps the design team learn of the detrimental effects of the design decisions.
	b. It reduces the need to estimate and model concepts during the design project.
	c. It provides milestones to help explore whether the project is on schedule.
	d. It helps communicate design ideas with team members, managers, customers, and so forth.

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Which of the following is not a true statement about the concept selection process?

	a. You should look for new concepts during the process.
	b. The results of the process are all that should be documented.
	c. You will most likely not have enough information to make a completely informed decision.
	d. None of the above.

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Which of the following is not a true statement about estimations and modeling?

	a. The two approaches are closely related.
	b. Estimations should not be used when modeling and exploring the validity of results.
	c. The accuracy and fidelity of necessary results will determine whether to estimate or model.
	d. Engineering modeling can be used in the estimation process.

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Which of the following is not a valid class or type of prototype?

	a. Experimental development work
	b. Final part design and assembly determination
	c. Pilot production/limited capacity scaling
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following is not an example of a potential hindrance to the brainstorming process?

	a. Judging ideas generated
	b. Performing an insufficient external search
	c. Creating too many ideas
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following is not included in the background section of a Statement of Work?

	a. A description of the problem and context
	b. A description of why the problem exists
	c. A description of how the end result will be used
	d. A description of the defined needs of the customers as researched

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Which of the following is the customer for a design project?

	a. The end user of the product or process
	b. Those affecting the buying decision of the product or process
	c. Those who rely on the resulting performance or output of the product or process further upstream
	d. All of the above

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Which of the following needs to be defined or given in order to perform a size optimization of a structure?

	a. Shape
	b. Topology
	c. Both A and B
	d. None of the above

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Which of the following would not be considered an effective way of learning customer needs?

	a. Interviews with customers directly
	b. Engineering comprehension and intuition
	c. On-site observations
	d. Surveys and focus groups

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Which of the following would not be considered good advice for brainstorming?

	a. Accept all ideas without providing feedback.
	b. Generate a large number of ideas.
	c. Do not worry about the feasibility of the ideas.
	d. Do not build on other ideas; only present new ones.

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