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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 191 · 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 pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  8. 8.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  14. 14.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  18. 18.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) list the materials
  20. 20.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) redesign after testing (d) ask who will use it
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  28. 28.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  30. 30.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  34. 34.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  37. 37.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Test
  3. Create
  4. Imagine
  5. Ask
  6. Plan
  7. Improve
  8. True
  9. no, it repeats
  10. Test
  11. Imagine
  12. Create
  13. define the problem
  14. False
  15. True
  16. Improve
  17. dream up possible fixes
  18. True
  19. find the limits
  20. True
  21. True
  22. Ask
  23. True
  24. True
  25. Plan
  26. try it out
  27. build the model
  28. True
  29. Imagine
  30. False
  31. Plan
  32. Create
  33. Plan
  34. True
  35. Ask
  36. Create
  37. True
  38. True
  39. make it better, retest
  40. Improve

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