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• which of these were problems our ancestors invented solutions for?

  
  

  a.) Providing food

  b.) Providing shelter

  c.) Providing a suitable way of life for families and communities

  d.) All of the above

  
  

  d.) All of the above
• What are the individuals or teams of professionals who work together to design and improve materials, structures, machines and systems we use everyday called?

  
  

  a.) Robots

  b.) Physicists

  c.) Engineers

  d.) Magicians

  
  

  c.) Engineers
• What do engineers use to create solutions to problems?

  
  

  a.) The Engineering Design Process

  b.) The Scientific Method

  c.) Hitting Things with Pipe Wrenches

  d.) The Engineer's Guide to the Universe

  
  

  a.) The Engineering Design Process
• What questions do engineers ask when solving a problems?

  
  

  a.) What problem needs to be solved?

  b.) Who has the problem that needs solving?

  c.) Why is the problem important to solve?

  d.) All of the above

  
  

  d.) all of the above
• How many specialized areas has the field of engineering expanded to include over the course of time?

  
  

  a.) one or two

  b.) several hundred

  c.) a dozen

  d.) twenty or so

  
  

  b. ) several hundred
• What sub-discipline of Mechanical Engineering focuses heavily on vehicle design and testing?

  
  

  a.) Architectural Engineering

  b.) Automotive Engineering

  c.) Geothermal Engineering

  d.) Biomedical Engineering

  
  

  b.) Automotive Engineering
• Which of these is NOT a specilized area under the chemical engineering branch?

  
  

  a.) Computer

  b.) Petroleum

  c.) Plastics

  d.) Bio Engineering

  
  

  a.) Computer
• Which of these areas of Civil Engineering focuses on the protection of the human population and environmental quality?

  
  

  a.) Structural

  b.) Transportation

  c.) Environmental

  d.) Surveying

  
  

  c.) Environmental
• When did electrical engineering begin to grow in popularity?

  
  

  a.) Early 2000's

  b.) 4000 BC

  c.) 19th Century

  d.) 1950's

  
  

  c.) 19th Century
• Which specilized are of mechanical engineering designs vehicles specific to air and space travel?

  
  

  a.) Aerospace

  b.) Acoustical

  c.) Manufacturing

  d.) Thermal

  
  

  a.) Aerospace
• What are engineering fields that are a combination of two or more engineering disciplines called?

  
  

  a.) Multipurpose

  b.) Interdisciplinary

  c. Monodisciplinary

  d.) Chem-Civ-Ele-Mech

  
  

  b.) Interdisciplinary
• Which engineering functions involves conducting investigations and experiments in the advancement of the field?

  
  

  a.) Development

  b.) Operations and Maintenance

  c.) Research

  d.) Systems

  
  

  c.) Research
• What are the individuals who work alongside and assist engineers called?

  
  

  a.) Assitors

  b.) Engineer Jr.

  c.) Technologists and Technicians

  d.) Tech Support

  
  

  c.) Technologists and Technicians
• Which design criteria is concerned with the requirements of the design, the features it needs to have and how it will behave?

  
  

  a.) Constraints

  b.) Functions

  c.) Means

  d.) Objectives

  
  

  d.) Objectives