Engineering Design Concepts End Semester Exam
Latest Updated Questions and Answers
1. Engineering Design
Answer - a systematic, intelligent process in which engineers generate, evaluate, and specify solutions
for devices, systems, or processes whose form(s) and function(s) achieve clients' objectives and users'
needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints.
2. The Steps of the Design Cycle
Answer
i. Finding the Problem
ii. Defining the Problem
iii. Generating Solution Ideas
iv. Deciding Which Solution Idea to Use
v. Implementing the Chosen Solution
vi. Evaluating the Result
3. Morphological charts SC
Answer
• First column contains objectives of design, with additional columns for possible solutions
to each sub-problem
• Combine solutions to sub‐ problems in unique ways to solve problem
4. Fishbone diagrams SC
Answer - Problem is at the head, ribs are sub‐problems, with protrusions from the ribs as possible areas
for investigation to solve each rib.
5. Fresh perspective SC
Answer - Ask someone unacquainted with the problem to give ideas on how to solve it.
6. Effects of Technology
Answer
• Technical
• Organizational
• Personal
• Environmental
• Cultural
7. Hidden Assumption
Answer - assumptions that we don't even realize we are making. How and where our solution will be
used, what the costs will be, and how well a certain component or idea might work.
, Another purpose of the engineering design cycle is to expose our hidden assumptions as early as
possible.
8. In implementing the chosen solution, we must balance these resources
Answer - time, money, people
9. The end result of earnest work on an open-ended problem
Answer - a better understanding of the problem and how we could do even better at solving it. These
discoveries get reported and then, if we have the resources and inclination, we begin the design cycle
again to craft an even better solution.
10. Engineer
Answer - people who design the solution
11. Client
Answer - people who are recruiting the engineers to solve the problem.
12. User
Answer - people (or, in some cases, non-humans like animals or ecosystems) who will actually use the
solution created
13. Our purpose as engineers
Answer - to solve a user's problem, and solving the user's problem is grounded on understanding who
the user is.
Where possible, testing of the prototypes during the design cycle should directly involve the user
so that all of the hidden assumptions we have about the user can be found and removed.
14. An extremely common hidden assumption
Answer - The user is similar to the engineer.
A solution that perfectly matches the abilities and preferences of the engineer is a poor solution if
it doesn't match the abilities and preferences of the user.
15. Defining a problem means:
Answer
• Identifying the real need
• Identifying the design specifications
• Resolving errors, biases and implied solutions
16. Dunker Diagram
Answer
• Helps to redefine problem.
• The present state (the original problem statement) is listed on the top, then a desired state is
presented on the left as a general solution to the problem.
Latest Updated Questions and Answers
1. Engineering Design
Answer - a systematic, intelligent process in which engineers generate, evaluate, and specify solutions
for devices, systems, or processes whose form(s) and function(s) achieve clients' objectives and users'
needs while satisfying a specified set of constraints.
2. The Steps of the Design Cycle
Answer
i. Finding the Problem
ii. Defining the Problem
iii. Generating Solution Ideas
iv. Deciding Which Solution Idea to Use
v. Implementing the Chosen Solution
vi. Evaluating the Result
3. Morphological charts SC
Answer
• First column contains objectives of design, with additional columns for possible solutions
to each sub-problem
• Combine solutions to sub‐ problems in unique ways to solve problem
4. Fishbone diagrams SC
Answer - Problem is at the head, ribs are sub‐problems, with protrusions from the ribs as possible areas
for investigation to solve each rib.
5. Fresh perspective SC
Answer - Ask someone unacquainted with the problem to give ideas on how to solve it.
6. Effects of Technology
Answer
• Technical
• Organizational
• Personal
• Environmental
• Cultural
7. Hidden Assumption
Answer - assumptions that we don't even realize we are making. How and where our solution will be
used, what the costs will be, and how well a certain component or idea might work.
, Another purpose of the engineering design cycle is to expose our hidden assumptions as early as
possible.
8. In implementing the chosen solution, we must balance these resources
Answer - time, money, people
9. The end result of earnest work on an open-ended problem
Answer - a better understanding of the problem and how we could do even better at solving it. These
discoveries get reported and then, if we have the resources and inclination, we begin the design cycle
again to craft an even better solution.
10. Engineer
Answer - people who design the solution
11. Client
Answer - people who are recruiting the engineers to solve the problem.
12. User
Answer - people (or, in some cases, non-humans like animals or ecosystems) who will actually use the
solution created
13. Our purpose as engineers
Answer - to solve a user's problem, and solving the user's problem is grounded on understanding who
the user is.
Where possible, testing of the prototypes during the design cycle should directly involve the user
so that all of the hidden assumptions we have about the user can be found and removed.
14. An extremely common hidden assumption
Answer - The user is similar to the engineer.
A solution that perfectly matches the abilities and preferences of the engineer is a poor solution if
it doesn't match the abilities and preferences of the user.
15. Defining a problem means:
Answer
• Identifying the real need
• Identifying the design specifications
• Resolving errors, biases and implied solutions
16. Dunker Diagram
Answer
• Helps to redefine problem.
• The present state (the original problem statement) is listed on the top, then a desired state is
presented on the left as a general solution to the problem.
