FET Semester Review Study Guide

Directions:

The following list will help you know what topics and terms you will need to know for the upcoming test so you can organize your notes and prepare for the test. We will review these in class to help you prepare. WARNING –you will NOT be able to use this while taking the test, so pay attention during the review, prepare yourself, and STUDY.

Unit 1 – Engineering Background, CTSOs, Safety

Engineering Overview, Careers, Disciplines

1. The definitions and essential characteristics of engineering and technology.

2. The different types of resources.

3. Greek, Roman, and European history of engineering.

4. The major engineering disciplines and roles we discussed and what they do.

CTSOs

5. What the TSA is.

6. Who should join TSA and why.

Safety

7. The main cause(s) of accidents.

8. Personal, tool, and material safety rules.

9. The main safety signs we discussed (the ones on my presentation).

10. The roles and responsibilities of the workplace safety agencies we discussed.

Unit 2 – Engineering Design Process

Engineering Design Process (EDP)

11. Definition/description of Engineering Design and the EDP

12. Detailed description of each step in the EDP, including (but not limited to): where needs/wants come from, criteria and constraints, determining and selecting possible solutions, prototyping and alternatives to it, test plan, final product, engineering notebook contents, and what the main output is.

Engineering Design Notebook

13. Purposes of a Design Notebook

14. All the guidelines: general, initial pages, section entries, errors, data and drawings, adding extras, wrapping it up, summary

Unit 3 - Engineering Trainers

Robotics

1. What it is, how to use one, what type of tasks robots are used for

Pneumatics

2. Calculations related to pressure

Electrical Control, Electrical Fabrication, & AC/DC

3. Definition of energy, electricity, circuits, voltage, resistance, current, Ohm’s Law, and calculations related to them

Measurements

4. Using SI (metric) and U.S. customary units when given conversion values/rates/formulas

5. Dimensions, area, and volume of various shapes

6. Reading instruments – tape measures, rulers, micrometers, calipers, etc.

CAD

7. What it is, what it does, why use it

CNC

8. What it is, what it does, why use it

Mechanisms

9. Calculations related to mass, weight, force

10. Describe the different types of levers

11. Know the basic calculations associated with levers (force, torque, law of moments, mechanical advantage)

Machine Tools

12. What the different tools are and why you use them

13. Characteristics of different materials

Unit 4 – Technical Drawing and Drafting

Drafting Bootcamp

1. In which engineering disciplines are drafting and technical drawing used?

2. What is an orthographic projection and how is one created?

3. How many views can be created of an object, and which ones are typically used?

4. What is the “alphabet of lines”? What does each type of line look like? What do they indicate?

5. How do you “read” a drawing?