Design Process
This is the first step in the engineering design process, where you figure out what problem you need to solve.
What is identify the problem?
This inventor is credited with designing the first practical light bulb.
Who is Thomas Edison?
This branch of math is the language of engineering, used to describe relationships and changes.
What is algebra?
Engineers who design roads, bridges, and buildings usually belong to this branch of engineering.
What is civil engineering?
Good communication often involves listening carefully and doing this to confirm understanding.
What is asking questions or paraphrasing?
Engineers create these visual representations of ideas before building prototypes
What are sketches or drawings?
Known as the father of the telephone, this engineer invented a device that revolutionized communication.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
Water boiling at 100°C is an example of a change of state known as this.
What is vaporization or boiling?
This type of engineer focuses on creating software and computer systems.
What is a software engineer or computer engineer?
A document that outlines goals, tasks, and timelines for a team project is often called this.
What is a project plan?
This stage involves creating a working version of a design to test and improve it
What is prototyping?
This African-American mathematician worked for NASA and pivotal in the launch of their pilot space programs (Hidden Figures).
Who is Katherine Johnson?
According to Newton’s Second Law, force equals this.
What is mass times acceleration (F = ma)?
A mechanical engineer is most likely to design this type of object: a car engine, a circuit board, or a vaccine.
What is a car engine?
This type of conflict occurs when team members have different opinions, but resolving it can lead to innovation.
What is constructive conflict?
This phase requires engineers to test and analyze data to determine if the design meets the requirements
What is evaluation or testing?
She was the first female engineer at NASA and helped create the Apollo guidance system.
Who is Margaret Hamilton?
This mathematical ratio is approximately 3.14159, used in many engineering formulas involving circles.
What is pi (π)?
This type of engineering focuses on using biology and chemistry to develop medicines, fuels, and other products.
What is chemical engineering?
This leadership style focuses on collaboration and encourages every team member to contribute ideas.
What is democratic leadership?
The design process is not strictly linear. This term describes how engineers often revisit earlier steps to improve a design
What is iteration?
This ancient engineer designed machines like war engines and water pumps, and wrote 'Mechanica.'
Who is Archimedes?
This law in electricity states that current equals voltage divided by resistance.
What is Ohm’s Law?
These engineers develop technology for space exploration, like spacecraft and satellites.
What is aerospace engineering?
Engineers often give this type of formal presentation to explain their design to stakeholders.
What is a design review or technical presentation?