Aerodynamics
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Engineering Design Process Steps
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100

A push or pull

What is a FORCE?

100

Steps that lead to a result

What is a PROCESS?

100

University of Florida

Where was Gatorade invented?

100

Identify the Problem

What is the FIRST STEP of the Engineering Design Process?

100

The study of the motion of the air when
itinteracts with a moving object

What is AERODYNAMICS?

200

Force created by the engines that move the plane through the air

What is THRUST?

200

Creating the best

What is OPTIMIZING?

200

Reverse

How did Leonardo da Vinci write his notes?

200

Communicate, Share, & Explain

What is the LAST STEP of the Engineering Design Process?

200

Uses existing technology and science to create new technology

What is ENGINEERING?

300

Force caused by the
gravitational attraction of the Earth on the plane

What is WEIGHT?

300

Creating prototypes

What is MODELING?

300

Patents

What did Thomas Edison have more of than any other inventor?

300

Test & Evaluate

What step follows Create a Prototype?

300

A person that invents or innovates

What is an ENGINEER?

400

Force that directly opposes the weight of a plane & holds the plane in the air

What is LIFT?

400

Restriction

What is a CONSTRAINT?

400

Babies

In addition to football players Gatorade who was also given to Gatorade when suffering from dehydration

400

You should always get this after the Test & Evaluate step 

What is FEEDBACK?

400

An iterative process that involves modeling and optimizing to develop technological solutions to problems within given constraints

What is the ENGINEERING DESIGN PROCESS?

500

Force that opposes (tries to stop) the plane’s motion through the air

What is DRAG?

500

Reapating

What is ITERATIVE?

500

5000

How many pages of notes did Leonardo daVinci accumulate?

500

Information gathered during research is used in this step

What is DESIGN?

500

Curved on the top and flat on the bottom

How does the shape of the wings allow an airplane to fly?