Engineering Design
This tool is used to rate concepts based on the different criteria
What is a decision matrix?
A type of analysis that evaluates the aesthetic of a product
What is visual analysis?
The difference between the maximum and the minimum of a data set
What is the range?
A middle gear in a simple gear train that does not impact the gear ratio
What is an idler?
This term describes the allowable variation of a part dimension
What is tolerance?
This document includes elements such as client, designer, design statement, constraints & criteria
What is a design brief?
This material property can be evaluated using a scratch test
What is hardness?
A graph which involves a number line and a symbol plotted on the number line for each datum
What is a dot plot?
A linear toothed mechanism driven by a pinion gear
What is a rack?
This type of fit occurs when pressure is needed to insert one part into another
What is interference fit?
This adjective describes how the engineering design process repeats itself in a cycle
What is iterative?
This category of material properties include stiffness, hardness, toughness, ductility etc. . .
What is mechanical?
The range between quartile 1 and quartile 3 shown as a box on a box and whisker plot
What is the interquartile range?
A mechanism that can be eccentric, pear, snail-shaped etc.
What is a cam?
This tolerance type is written expressly as a range between minimum and maximum values
What is a limit tolerance?
The four steps of the process are proportioning, adding geometry and contours, adding details, and shading
What is concept sketching?
Batteries store and convert this type of energy into electrical energy
What is chemical energy?
The 3 measures of central tendency
What are mean, median, and mode?
The motion type that goes back and forth along a line
What is reciprocating?
The tolerance type that has both positive and negative variation
What is bilateral tolerance?
Before starting on a project, team members need to establish and agree upon these methods of interaction
What are team norms?
A method for calculating volume that utilizes a graduated cylinder or beaker
What is water displacement?
The description of a data set symmetrically centered around the mean (e.g. bell curve)
What is a normal distribution?
The motion type that goes bath and forth along a curve or arc
What is oscillating?
The full expression for MMC
What is maximum material condition?