1. Opening Assignment
Take out a piece of paper and pencil for a QUIZ!

2. Engineering Technology Manufacturing
Company X makes 100 custom buses each year. Company Y makes 10,000 of one type of bus each year.
1. What does the word custom mean?
2. Which of the following is the most likely reason a customer would buy a bus from company X instead of company Y?
A. to keep the cost of the bus low
B.to ensure that the bus will be easy to replace
C.to provide ideas about how the bus will be built
3. Why did you choose your answer?

3. 4. What does mass production mean?
5. Which of the following best describes an advantage of using a mass production manufacturing system instead of a custom manufacturing system?
A. Customers can provide specific feedback to workers.
B. Workers become skilled in all aspects of assembly.
C. Goods can be easily modified for customers.
D. Products can be made at a lower cost.

4. Engineering Design Process

5. Vocabulary words for Design process
Constraints – factors that you must consider when thinking about a solution/new design

6. Vocab words continued Prototype Trouble shooting tradeoffs
Building a model to test!
Making sure there are not faults with the design
A problem is solved but something is sacrificed

7. In the design process, a trade-off occurs when a problem is solved but a feature is sacrificed. Which of the following is an example of a trade-off?
A. A car’s gas mileage is increased and the engine has less power.
B. An airplane uses a more efficient engine and has higher performance.
C. A sports drink’s taste is improved and has the same nutritional content.
D. A computer company upgrades the hardware and the price remains unchanged.

8. B. They can be produced in large numbers.
A company is making prototypes for a new computer system. Which of the following statements best describes an advantage of making several different prototypes?
A. They can be tested at the same time.
B. They can be produced in large numbers.
C. They will be bought by many different users.
D. They will be sold for more than they cost to build.

11. Textbook
Page 26 the Oven as a System

12. After a windstorm, Niko called the electric company to report that he had no electricity. His phone call is an example of which of the following elements of a universal systems model?
A. designing a process
B. generating output
C. giving feedback
D. setting a goal

13. Transportation

14. Thrust Drag Gravity Lift????
b. Using your copy of the diagram, draw arrows to show how the forces of thrust, drag, and gravity act on the racing car as it moves forward on a racetrack. Label each arrow as thrust, drag, or gravity.
c. Describe how each force that you labeled in part (b) acts on the racing car as it moves on a racetrack

15. Subsystems of a transportation system
Propulsion
Guidance
Control
Suspension

16. A ship has a satellite communication device to identify the ship’s position at sea. For which of the following activities is this device most likely used?
A. control
B. guidance
C. propulsion
D. suspension

17. Construction questions
Construction of houses
Foundation – provides support
Wall system – skeleton

18. According to building codes, the homeowners must add a beam in the
During a remodeling project, homeowners want to remove a wall that separates two rooms in their house. The wall and the two rooms are shown in the diagram below
According to building codes, the
homeowners must add a beam in the
ceiling when they remove the existing
wall. Which statement best explains why
the homeowners must do this?
A. The wall provides heat insulation for the rooms.
B. The wall provides structural support
for the house.
C. The wall provides a sound barrier between the rooms.
D. The wall provides a place to hang objects in the house.