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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 243 · 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 measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  7. 7.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  11. 11.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) pick the build order (d) think of wild ideas
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  22. 22.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make a prototype (c) fix the weak part (d) find the limits
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  31. 31.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) list the materials
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  35. 35.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  38. 38.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. False
  2. follow the plan to build
  3. Imagine
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. ask who will use it
  7. True
  8. Improve
  9. Ask
  10. Improve
  11. False
  12. Improve
  13. Create
  14. Plan
  15. check it against goals
  16. Plan
  17. Imagine
  18. think of wild ideas
  19. Ask
  20. Imagine
  21. Ask
  22. Improve
  23. Improve
  24. make it better, retest
  25. Imagine
  26. Ask
  27. Imagine
  28. make a prototype
  29. Plan
  30. Test
  31. False
  32. True
  33. list the materials
  34. Ask
  35. False
  36. dream up possible fixes
  37. Ask
  38. True
  39. True
  40. Plan

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