How is design different from problem solving?

It involves devising new solutions that have not been found before.

When do people have a problem?

When they encounter a difficult situation are not sure how to resolve it

What was the purpose of improved construction practices?

To support the growing demand for shelter

A map used to organize ideas around a central idea

What does critical thinking use?

This uses mental abilities to identify, analyze and evaluate a situation

What is a Gantt Chart?

A way to organize goals and the people responsible for the particular tasks

What was the purpose of advanced transportation and communication development?

To support the growing industrial activities

Who were the major inventors during the Industrial Revolution?

Edmund Cartwright, Joseph Jacquard, James Watt, and Eli Whitney

What is the reason for 40-hour workweek and annual vacations?

To support extended free time made available from the use of machines

When was the renaissance?

Began in the early 1300s in Italy until 1600

What is the first step used to solve a problem?

Develop an understanding of the problem through observations.

What is the complexity of a problem?

How complicated and difficult a problem is to solve.

What is the second step to solving a problem?

Devise a plan for solving the problem.

What is the type of technology that relates to processing data into information and specifications for new products?

Communication and Information Technologies

What is a bill of materials?

A list of all the components needed to produce a product or system

What is the structure of a problem?

How much information is provided.

What is the first step of the engineering design process?

Identifying and Defining a Problem

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1
How is design different from problem solving?
Design is different in too many ways to count.
I don't know!!!!
It involves devising new solutions that have not been found before.
Design is the same as problem solving.
2
When do people have a problem?
When they encounter a difficult situation are not sure how to resolve it
When they can continue
don't ask me!
When they are struggling to find a friend and need help
3
What are some tasks in the Communicating the Final Solution step?
Study solution results
All of the above
Share results and conclusions
Interpret solution
4
What was the purpose of improved construction practices?
To support the growing demand for shelter
why tho?
To support extended free time made available from the use of machines
To support the growing industrial activities
5
What is a mind map?
A map used to organize a pattern
A map used to organize ideas for where to eat lunch
A map used to figure out the true value of i
A map used to organize ideas around a central idea
6
What does continuous manufacturing do?
Division of jobs into tasks and management now known as professional groups
All of the above
Improved machine life due to interchangeable parts
Created material-handling devices that brought the work to the workers
7
What are the characteristics of the information age?
All of the above
Blurred line between production workers and managers
Demand for trained technicians, technologists, and engineers
Wide use of automatic machines and information-processing equipment
8
What does critical thinking use?
This uses mental abilities to identify, analyze and evaluate a situation
ummmm.........pizza i guess.
It uses mental abilities that only extraterrestrial beings can find
It uses mental abilities that are non-existent in the realm of human status
9
What is a Gantt Chart?
next...
A way to secretly tell someone you hate them
A way to organize goals and the people responsible for the particular tasks
A way to organize people and soccer balls.
10
Is technology created on purpose?
False
True
11
What was the purpose of advanced transportation and communication development?
To support the growing demand for shelter
UHH.....I knew I was going to fail!!
To support extended free time made available from the use of machines
To support the growing industrial activities
12
Who were the major inventors during the Industrial Revolution?
Edmund Cartwright, Steve Jobs, James Watt, and Eli Whitney
Edmund Cartwright, Joseph Jacquard, James Watt, and Eli Whitney
Edmund Cartwright, Bill Gates, James Watt Eli Whitney
Elizabeth Warren, Bernie Sanders, Joe Biden, and Pete Buttigieg
13
What is the context of a problem
How much information is provided.
Facts surrounding problem.
How complicated and difficult a problem is to solve.
fa-la-la....la-la-la-la
14
What do engineering design problems involve?
the need to design either a technological product.
Feliz Navidad!
a system as a solution to a problem.
Triangle and Circle
15
What are products designed for?
All of the above
Function
Marketing
Production
16
What is the reason for 40-hour workweek and annual vacations?
To support the growing industrial activities
To support extended free time made available from the use of machines
Finals......Already?
To support the growing demand for shelter
17
Technology requires ______ _______.
Technologically Literate
Technologically Language
Technologically Math
Technologically History
18
When was the renaissance?
Began in the early 1300s in Italy until 1600
Began in the early 1200s in Italy until 1300
Began in the early 2000s in Italy until 2010
Began in the early 1100s in Italy until 1500
19
What age began in 400 CE and continued until 1500 CE?
Middle Age
The Renaissance
Information Age
Iron Age
20
What is the first step used to solve a problem?
Develop an understanding of the problem through observations.
Devise a plan for solving the problem and Implement the plan.
Evaluate how the plan was implemented.
Implement the plan.
21
What are some tasks in the Develop a Design Solution step?
Search for solutions
Develop several possible solutions
Isolate, refine, and detail best solution
All of the above
22
What is the fifth step of the engineering design process?
Evaluate the Solution
Identify and Define a Problem
Develop a Design Solution
Gather Information
23
What type of technology relates to housing and businesses, roads, power lines, dams, and pipelines?
Medical Technologies
Manufacturing Technologies
Construction Technologies
Energy and Power Technologies
24
What is the complexity of a problem?
How complicated and difficult a problem is to solve.
Facts surrounding problem.
stop
How much information is provided.
25
What is this time period? This time period is characterized by information-based industries.
Middle ages
Information age
Iron age
DeVry....Here I come!!
26
What is the third step of the engineering design process?
Evaluate the Solution
Identify and Define a Problem
Gather Information
develop a Design Solution
27
People in primitive conditions...........
Existed with nature
Used only native materials
Exerted their will on nature
Triangle and Circle
28
What are characteristics of technological systems?
Inputs and Outputs
Closely related
All of the above
Work together
29
What is the second step to solving a problem?
Implement the plan.
Devise a plan for solving the problem.
Develop an understanding of the problem through observation.
Evaluate how the plan was implemented.
30
What other achievements were accomplished?
Increased time in school
There goes my 4.0 GPA!
Diamond and Circle
Universal literacy
31
What inventions were created in the renaissance?
Calculator
Telescope
Improvements to ships
All of the above
32
What are some tasks in the Modeling and Making a Solution step?
All of the above
Prototype solution
Conduct material experimentation
Acquire appropriate resources
33
What technology is related to health maintenance, and curing illnesses?
Medical Technologies
Transportation Technologies
Agriculture and Other Related Biotechnologies
Manufacturing Technologies
34
Technology is used to ____.
Triangle and Diamond
Extend Human Capability
Go to Peru
Solve Problems
35
People in civilized condition........
Triangle and Diamond
Exerted their will on nature
Merry Christmas!
Make tools, grew crops, engineered materials, and developed transportation.
36
The engineering design process is not a direct path and steps can overlap.
True
False
37
What started in England in the 18th century and included advancements in power-driven machinery?
Bronze age
Industrial Revolution
Renaissance
Iron Age
38
What is the type of technology that relates to processing data into information and specifications for new products?
Construction Technologies
Communication and Information Technologies
Energy and Power Technologies
Agricultural and Related Biotechnologies
39
What is a bill of materials?
A list of all the groceries that are needed
A list of all the components needed to produce a product or system
A material made of paper bills
A bill showing the total amount of money paid for a set of materials
40
What is the second step of the engineering design process?
Communicate the Final Solution
Identify and Define a Problem
Evaluate the Solution
Gather Information
41
The words design and problem-solving are interchangeable?
False
True
42
Technology is the application of knowledge, tools, and _______.
Artifacts
Tech
Skills
Systems
43
What are the negative impacts of technology?
Poorly designed and used technology can create air and water pollution.
Creates feared natural events such as nuclear winter, acid rain.
Can cause unemployment and radical changes in the ways people live.
All of the above
44
What is the structure of a problem?
Facts surrounding problem.
the wheels on the bus go round and round
How complicated and difficult a problem is to solve.
How much information is provided.
45
What is the first step of the engineering design process?
Identifying and Defining a Problem
Make a model
Develop a Design Solution
Gather information
46
What happened during the Industrial Revolution?
Employees were divided into production workers and managers.
Triangle and Circle
Each division given specific tasks.
I don't know.......Soup!
47
Products and structures must be designed so they can be produced economically and efficiently and sell competitively.
True
False
48
What is the third step to solve a problem?
Devise a plan for solving the problem.
Evaluate how the plan was implemented.
Implement the plan.
Develop an understanding of the problem through observation.
49
What is the stone age?
Humans learned how to use fire during this time for cooking and heating.
Earliest Period known to civilization
All of the above.
People used stones for cutting, pounding, and hunting.
50
Technology is any modification of the natural world done to fulfills human wants and needs.
True
False
51
What are the tasks in the Identify and Define a Problem step?
Formulate problem statement
All of the above
Establish criteria and constraints
Identify and validate problem
52
What is the type of technology that relates to the growth of food and trees and the production of natural fibers?
Energy and Power Technologies
Construction Technologies
Agricultural and Related Biotechnologies
Communication and Information Technologies
53
Engineering design is a repetitive process throughout all steps of the design process.
True
False
54
what are constraints?
Limitation and restrictions
Life
Hard stops
Blocks
55
What are the tasks in the Gather Information step?
Research current solutions
All of the above
Explore concepts to be applied in an innovative way
Document details
56
Technology is a ______ _______ meaning it is constantly changing.
dynamic thing
All the above
dynamic process
complex process
57
Products and Services are _____.
Designed through development(known as technological innovation).
Produced by technological means (known as processes).
All of the Above
The result of technology.
58
What does problem - solving process requires people to employ?
One more reasonable pathways for solving
All of the above
Solutions for a situation that has an identified goal state
Readily available solutions
59
Distributed to customers using technology and when they fulfill their function or become obsolete, they are kept.
False
True
60
What famous inventor was alive during the Renaissance?
Henry Ford
Leonardo Da Vinci
Steve Jobs
Thomas Edison
61
What tools were created in the middle ages
All of the above
Water wheel and Paper money
Printing press
Magnetic Compass
62
What is the final step of the engineering design process?
Develop a Design Solution
Identify and Define a Problem
Gather Information
Communicate the Final Solution
63
What is the Iron Age?
Tools made of iron and steel
All of the above
Alphabet, coins, trade, and transportation were more common.
Used iron due to being plentiful and more affordable.
64
What type of technology is related to transporting people and cargo, energy into power, raw materials to manufacturers?
Transportation Technologies
Construction Technologies
Energy and Power Technologies
Medical Technologies
65
Bonus: What college(s) does Nikhil Iyer want to go to?
MIT
Georgia Tech
Yale
Stanford
66
What type of technology relates to location and extracting of raw materials into steel, and conversion of materials?
Agriculture and Other Related Biotechnologies
Medical Technologies
Manufacturing Technologies
Transportation Technologies
67
What is product design?
The original drawing for the iPhone.
Not everyone is good at academics.
The production of design.
the development of a product or structure to meet the needs of customers.
68
What does problem solving require?
Well......Community College it is!
Amazing skills
Critical thinking
Technical skills
69
what is the most complex and least structured problem?
Complex problems
Engineering design problem
Random Problems
pass
70
What is the fourth step of the engineering design process?
Develop and Design a Solution
Make and Model a Solution
Evaluate a Solution
Gather Information
71
What type of technology relates to converting and applying energy to power, and powering furnaces and machines?
Medical Technologies
Energy and Power Technologies
Manufacturing Technologies
Transportation Technologies
72
What are some tasks in the Evaluating the Solution step?
Conduct scientific investigations
Establish testing procedure
Determine test procedure
All of the above
73
Tasks and strategies vary in purpose and intent in the different steps.
True
False
74
What is a commonality in a simple and complex problem?
don't care to answer
Both have no apparent path from present to goal state
Triangle and Circle
Both have an identifiable goal
75
What does design involve?
Critical thinking
Some thinking
Help me!!
Useless thinking
76
what are the three ways a problem varies?
Complexity, Structure, Time
Complexity, Structure, Context
Time, Constraints, Structure
Complexity, Contraints, Time
77
What is system design?
The algorithm to calculate the system most complex system of equations.
The design of systems
the arrangement of components to produce desired result.
the development of a product or structure to meet the needs of customers.
78
The engineering design process is only used by engineers.
False
True
79
What is the fourth step to solve a problem?
Evaluate how the plan was implemented.
Implement the plan.
Develop an understanding of the problem through observation.
Devise a plan for solving the problem.

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