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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 173 · 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 check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  17. 17.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) list the materials (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) fix the weak part
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  39. 39.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs

Answer key

  1. False
  2. build the model
  3. Create
  4. Imagine
  5. Plan
  6. Plan
  7. think of wild ideas
  8. Plan
  9. Ask
  10. Test
  11. Improve
  12. True
  13. False
  14. Create
  15. Improve
  16. redesign after testing
  17. False
  18. False
  19. Imagine
  20. True
  21. Plan
  22. False
  23. Ask
  24. Ask
  25. True
  26. False
  27. Test
  28. brainstorm many ideas
  29. Improve
  30. Plan
  31. dream up possible fixes
  32. Plan
  33. Imagine
  34. find the limits
  35. Test
  36. Ask
  37. Create
  38. Ask
  39. True
  40. no, it repeats

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