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QUESTION:

•It is everyone’s responsibility to make sure that tools, machines, and materials are used safely

ANSWER:

•TRUE

QUESTION:

•It isn’t important to contribute to a group endeavor by offering useful ideas, supporting the efforts of others, and focusing on the task.

ANSWER:

•FALSE

QUESTION:

•Creativity is not closely linked to the development of technology.

ANSWER:

•FALSE

QUESTION:

•The development of technology is a human activity and is the result of individual or collective needs and the ability to be creative.

ANSWER:

•TRUE

QUESTION:

•Beginning in the 20th century, people began to increase their capability by innovating and inventing.

ANSWER:

•FALSE

QUESTION:

•What is the first step in any problem solving method?

ANSWER:

•Identify the problem

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•What is brainstorming?

ANSWER:

•Generating numerous alternative ideas while deferring judgment

QUESTION:

•True or False: Brainstorming involves testing and evaluating a problem solution.

ANSWER:

•FALSE

QUESTION:

•Name two rules for brainstorming.

ANSWER:

•No criticism allowed•Work for quantity•Hitchhiking welcome•Freewheeling encouraged

QUESTION:

•Who was the first person to introduced the term “brainstorming?”

ANSWER:

•Alex Osborn

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•The ability or power to produce original thoughts or ideas based on reasoning and judgment

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•Creativity

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•A new product or system that has never existed before

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•Invention

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•A human-made object

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•Artifact

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•Human innovation in action that involves the generation of knowledge and processes to develop systems that solve problems

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•Technology

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•A limit to the design process

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•Constraint

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•A full size working model used to test a design

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•Prototype

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•The study of the natural world through observation, identification, experimental investigation, and theoretical explanations

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•Science

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•An improvement of an existing technological product system, or method of doing something

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•Innovation

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•A desired specification of a product or system

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•Criteria (also known as Criterion)

QUESTION:

•The profession involved in the development of processes, products, and systems that benefit mankind

ANSWER:

•Engineer

QUESTION:

•True or False: New products and systems can be developed to solve problems or to help do things that could not be done without the help of technology.

ANSWER:

•TRUE

QUESTION:

•True or False: A design brief is a written plan that identifies the problem to be solved and identifies the criteria and constraints related to the problem.

ANSWER:

•TRUE

QUESTION:

•Define the following: Mean, Median, Mode

ANSWER:

•Mean – average •Median – middle number when numbers are in order least to greatest•Mode – number that appears most frequently

QUESTION:

•What is the last step (#9) in the engineering design system?

ANSWER:

•Redesign

QUESTION:

•True or False – Medical products like needle and blood samples are not harmful to the environment.

•True or False – Plastics emit hazardous waste as a by-product when burned or remain in landfills.

ANSWER:•FALSE•TRUE