Machine Design MCQ

What are slots in a hub called?

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Correct Answer: Keyway

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What is a slot or groove cut into a shaft used for?

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Correct Answer: To fit a key

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What is a small block called that is inserted between a shaft and a hub of rotating machine element?

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Correct Answer: Key

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What is the width of material that is removed by a cutting process?

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Correct Answer: Kerf

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What does the word kerf mean?

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Correct Answer: Slit or notch cut by a saw or another tool

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What is a drill jig used to guide?

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Correct Answer: Cutting tool

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What is the name of a design process that has a recurring or cyclic process of modeling, prototyping, testing, analyzing, and refining a product or process?

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Correct Answer: Iterative Design

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Iterative design is based on a recurring or what?

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Correct Answer: Cyclic process

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What are some examples of intellectual property?

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Correct Answer: Patents, trademarks, copyrights

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In most countries, what is the total number of types of property that can be legally protected?

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Correct Answer: Four

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What does an Idler regulate?

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Correct Answer: Tension in belt or chain

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Idler is used to regulate the tension in what?

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Correct Answer: Belt or chain

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Idea generation is typically in what form during a project?

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Correct Answer: Relatively loose/abstract form

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What is typically early in a project and in a relatively loose/abstract form?

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Correct Answer: Idea generation

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What is an example of a technique used in idea generation?

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Correct Answer: Sketching

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Along with Ergonomics, what type of application of principles relates to Human Factors?

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Correct Answer: Psychological and physiological

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What are the types of performance?

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Correct Answer: Cognitive functions and systems

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What is the purpose of an HMS?

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Correct Answer: To maintain or protect process piping, equipment, vessels and instrumentation

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What is the bill of materials?

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Correct Answer: BOM

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What process is used to cut gear, spline and sprocket tooth geometries?

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Correct Answer: Gear Hobbing

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What is a typical use of the term front end design?

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Correct Answer: A preliminary stage of engineering design

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What is a typical name for this stage of project engineering design?

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Correct Answer: Front End Design

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What is a freeze used for during product development?

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Correct Answer: Specification freeze defines the set of requirements the entire design will be based on

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What is the term for a point in time after which no further changes to the appearance are intended?

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Correct Answer: Styling freeze

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What does the Type of prototype used to assess the external form of the design usually include?

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Correct Answer: Full size

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What is the term sometimes used as the three-dimensional equivalent of?

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Correct Answer: Shape

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What serves to attach the motor to a bracket or another structural element?

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Correct Answer: Flange

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What does the flange serve to attach the motor to?

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Correct Answer: A bracket or another structural element

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What is a fixture used to hold while manufacturing is performed upon it?

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Correct Answer: Workpiece

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What type of device is used to hold a workpiece on a workbench or a machine-tool?

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Correct Answer: Fixture

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What is the term for the class of contact between two machined surfaces?

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Correct Answer: Fit

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What is the class of contact that occurs between shaft and hole?

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Correct Answer: Interference

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What is another term for Fillet?

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Correct Answer: A rounding of an interior or exterior corner between two intersecting surfaces

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Along with aesthetics and simplification, what benefit does a fillet provide?

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Correct Answer: Strengthening

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What is another name for a Cornice?

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Correct Answer: Fillet

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What type of study involves extensive research?

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Correct Answer: Feasibility Study/Analysis

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What is an example of a relevant factor in a feasibility study?

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Correct Answer: Economic

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What is the purpose of an exploded view?

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Correct Answer: To illustrate the parts and their relationships to one another

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What is the name of the picture or drawing of the components separated and placed in position to be assembled to illustrate the parts and their relationships to one other?

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Correct Answer: Exploded view

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What is the term used to describe the use of anthropometrical data to determine optimum size, shape and form?

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Correct Answer: Ergonomic Design Principles of design

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Targeting effective, safe, and comfortable use of a product by whom?

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Correct Answer: Customers

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What is the process of design with consideration for the environmental impact of the product during its lifetime called?

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Correct Answer: Eco Design

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What is another term for Eco Design?

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Correct Answer: Green design

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A drawing is used to assist production by providing necessary information to produce a particular part or assembly by providing what?

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Correct Answer: Dimensions, tolerances and notes

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How many dimensions are in drawings?

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Correct Answer: 2D

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What is another word for die?

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Correct Answer: Tool

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What is a specialized tool to cut or shape material using a press?

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Correct Answer: Die

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What is the purpose of detailed design?

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Correct Answer: The phase where the design is finalized and drawings, specifications and estimates are created

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What is the purpose of the phase where the design is finalized?

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Correct Answer: Detailed design

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What is the name of the 5 phases of UX design thinking?

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Correct Answer: Empathize, Define, Ideate, Prototype and Test

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What is the number of DOF of a mechanism often defined as a sum of DOF of all its individual drives?

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Correct Answer: Six

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What is a typical redundancy number for rotational actuators?

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Correct Answer: Seven

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What is the number of DOF of the end-effector of a manipulator?

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Correct Answer: Six-DOF

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What is the number of independent parameters that define configuration of a system?

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Correct Answer: Degree-of-freedom

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A datum is a fixed reference feature for what?

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Correct Answer: Assigning dimensions

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What kind of reference feature is a datum?

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Correct Answer: Fixed

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What's the purpose of a countersink?

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Correct Answer: Accommodate the conic head of a fastener

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What do we add to an existing hole to accommodate the conic head of a fastener?

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Correct Answer: A conical hole

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What kind of hole is a countersink?

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Correct Answer: Conical

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What does the core usually become after it is removed from the piece?

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Correct Answer: Disposable item

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What is normally a disposable item that is destroyed to get it out of the piece?

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Correct Answer: Core

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What is the initial phase of the design process called?

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Correct Answer: Conceptual Design

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What is the meaning of composition?

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Correct Answer: A placement or arrangement of design elements/components in a whole design work or assembly

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What is composition in layout?

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Correct Answer: A placement or arrangement of design elements/components

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The arrangement or placement of components is called what?

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Correct Answer: Composition

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What is a component in an assembly or sub-assembly?

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Correct Answer: Single part or discrete element

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What is the term used to describe the specification of the material used to make a product?

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Correct Answer: Colour, material, finish

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Chamfer is what type of surface when it is cut off the straight edge of an object?

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Correct Answer: Flat

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Which surface is flat when made by cutting off the straight edge of an object?

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Correct Answer: Chamfer

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What is casting process used to make?

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Correct Answer: Parts

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The process of casting involves pouring a liquid mix into a mold, followed by what?

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Correct Answer: Cooling down the mold and the material

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What is the term for the use of software and computer-controlled machinery to automate a manufacturing process?

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Correct Answer: CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing

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When does CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing replace CAD?

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Correct Answer: When the phase of the latter is over

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When using CAM, a company may use software and what else?

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Correct Answer: Computer-controlled machinery

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Over what process does CAM take over when it's finished?

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Correct Answer: CAD

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What is another term for CAD?

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Correct Answer: CADD

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What is the term for using a computer to help in creation, modification, analysis, or optimization of a design in 2D or 3D?

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Correct Answer: CAD Computer Aided Design

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What kind of teeth does an example of the Broach have?

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Correct Answer: Multi-tooth

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What is a broach used to machine?

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Correct Answer: Internal and external surfaces

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What long, multi-tooth tool has successively deeper cuts?

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Correct Answer: Broach

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What is a boss in general used to describe?

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Correct Answer: Something that sticks up on a part

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What is a boss in 3D CAD?

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Correct Answer: Added material

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In general, what term describes something that sticks up on a part?

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Correct Answer: Boss

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What is a table containing?

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Correct Answer: List of the custom-made and off-the-shelf components

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What does a BOM include?

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Correct Answer: Part ID numbers and corresponding drawing numbers

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What can be felt before a system reverses?

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Correct Answer: Clearances

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What can cause a clearance in a mechanism?

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Correct Answer: Gaps between the parts

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A clearance in a mechanism is commonly referred to as what term?

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Correct Answer: Backlash

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What does close to manufacturing refer to?

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Correct Answer: The later phases of a design process

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What is the term for the later phases of a design process?

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Correct Answer: Backend

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What are components that are related, constitute common object and have interconnections called?

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Correct Answer: Assembly

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What is used in ergonomics?

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Correct Answer: Anthropometrics

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What type of software is used to create animation?

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Correct Answer: 3D CAD

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What is another word for "moving images"?

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Correct Answer: Animation

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What is used in the definition of the Mechanical Design Process?

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Correct Answer: Scientific principles and technical information

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The use of scientific principles and information along with what is used to define a machine, mechanical device or system?

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Correct Answer: Innovations, ingenuity, or imagination

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What is the use of scientific principles and technical information to define a machine?

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Correct Answer: Mechanical design process

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What discipline is encompassed by the term mechanical design?

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Correct Answer: All disciplines of mechanical engineering, thermal and fluid sciences, solid mechanics, materials and processes, manufacturing sciences

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What is the purpose of the engineering design process?

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Correct Answer: To produce plans by which resources are converted, preferably optimally with due consideration for environment

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What is the process by which resources are converted?

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Correct Answer: Engineering design process

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