Design Process
A set of steps that engineers follow to solve problems.
What is the Engineering Design Process?
The type of engineering that seeks ways to enhance transportation, water systems, and buildings by constructing structures that contribute to society’s growth.
What is Civil Engineering?
The type of engineering that seeks ways to make systems faster and better, while conserving energy.
What is Mechanical Engineering?
The type of engineering that focuses on the electricity and magnetism in our everyday lives and seeks to make electrical systems more efficient.
What is Electrical Engineering?
A set of guidelines and values that guide the decisions that are involved with the work of an engineer.
What is the Engineering Code of Ethics?
The Engineering Design Process has _____ steps.
What is Nine?
The first people to be considered civil engineers.
Who were the Ancient Egyptians?
Mechanical engineers always aim to MAXIMIZE ________ and MINIMIZE ________ in their designs.
What are Efficiency and Losses?
A form of energy that involves the flow of electrons through a conductor, such as a wire.
What is Electricity?
To ensure the safety of the people.
What is the Primary Responsibility of an Engineer?
The people impacted by your design as an engineer.
What are Stakeholders?
The type of engineering that optimizes the traffic flow of transportation systems so that it is safe for commuters.
What is Transportation Engineering?
One of the fundamental laws in mechanical engineering states that the energy (in the form of work or heat) of an isolated system remains constant.
What is the Law of Conservation of Energy?
A physical phenomenon that involves the attraction of opposite charges and repulsion of the same charge.
What is Magnetism?
Just because something is _______ does not mean it is ______.
What are Legal and Ethical?
An early sample version of a product to see how it works.
What is a Prototype?
The type of engineering that focuses on designing and managing water-based infrastructure like dams, water supply, and flood control.
What is Hydraulic Engineering?
The mechanical engineering concept that can be described with the following equation: η = (Pout / Pin ) x 100
What is Efficiency?
The person who discovered that electricity could be created with continuous current flow.
Who was Alessandro Volta?
An example of an engineering organization with their own code of ethics.
What is IEEE / ASME / ASCE?
The Engineering Design Process is not ________.
What is Linear?
The two exams a civil engineer needs to take to become a professional engineer.
What are the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE) and Principles and Practice of Engineering (PE) Exams?
A unit of power that stemmed from the idea that the steam engine could do the work of 20 horses.
What is Horsepower (HP)?
The first electromagnetic device that used Morse Code to transmit messages over long distances.
What is the telegraph?
A famous example of poor engineering ethics.
What was the Kansas City Hyatt-Regency Collapse, 1981?