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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 171 · 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) pick the build order (c) make it better, retest (d) measure its performance
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) define the problem (c) measure its performance (d) try it out
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) make a prototype (c) list the materials (d) draw a labelled diagram
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  15. 15.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  17. 17.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  22. 22.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) pick the build order (d) find the limits
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make it better, retest (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) pick the build order (d) define the problem
  32. 32.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. pick the build order
  3. Test
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. True
  7. Create
  8. Plan
  9. Create
  10. draw a labelled diagram
  11. Plan
  12. make a prototype
  13. Improve
  14. Ask
  15. False
  16. Imagine
  17. False
  18. follow the plan to build
  19. Improve
  20. Imagine
  21. Improve
  22. False
  23. Plan
  24. find the limits
  25. ask who will use it
  26. Ask
  27. Imagine
  28. Ask
  29. Plan
  30. Create
  31. define the problem
  32. no, it repeats
  33. Improve
  34. Ask
  35. Improve
  36. Ask
  37. make it better, retest
  38. fix the weak part
  39. Test
  40. False

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