Answer the following statement(s) true (T) or false (F)

1. Engineers follow certain steps when designing products and services. These steps include understanding the need for the product or service, doing the preliminary research, generating ideas for a solution, selecting the best idea, evaluating it in more detail and testing it, optimizing it if necessary, and presenting the final design.
2. The most important step of the eight basic engineering design steps is problem definition and understanding.
3. Good problems solvers are those who first fully understand what the problem is.
4. The eight basic engineering design steps always follow in sequence, 1 through 8, and none of the steps ever repeats during the design process.
5. There are two broad types of design: a functional design and an optimized design. A functional design is one that meets all of the preestablished design requirements but allows for improvement to be made in certain areas.


1. True
2. True
3. True
4. False
5. True

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