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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 166 · 40 questions
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Engineer's tip (Ask, imagine, plan, create, test, improve): Ask (problem, users, limits) → Imagine (many ideas) → Plan (diagram, materials). Create (build a prototype) → Test (measure) → Improve (fix and retest). It is a loop: after Improve, test again.

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  1. 1.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) find the limits
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  15. 15.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  17. 17.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  26. 26.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) check it against goals (c) make a prototype (d) redesign after testing
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  30. 30.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) check it against goals (d) build the model
  36. 36.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to make a prototype is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) check it against goals (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Improve
  3. Improve
  4. no, it repeats
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. try it out
  8. Improve
  9. make a prototype
  10. Create
  11. Test
  12. Create
  13. Ask
  14. find the limits
  15. Ask
  16. Imagine
  17. False
  18. brainstorm many ideas
  19. Ask
  20. Create
  21. Improve
  22. Imagine
  23. Test
  24. Ask
  25. follow the plan to build
  26. Plan
  27. check it against goals
  28. redesign after testing
  29. Imagine
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Plan
  33. False
  34. False
  35. build the model
  36. True
  37. False
  38. True
  39. True
  40. define the problem

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