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Engineering Tradeoffs — question 7 of 10

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The spec for a temperature sensor project just says: 'must work outdoors.' Your job is to turn that into a testable requirement before you can choose a sensor and design an enclosure. What questions would you ask, what would the resulting numeric spec look like, and what would you consider the biggest risk to test for first?

How sure are you?

Being confidently wrong costs more mastery than admitting a guess — that is deliberate, and it is how misconceptions get found.

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