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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 258 · 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 fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) build the model
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  10. 10.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) redesign after testing
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  15. 15.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) think of wild ideas
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) draw a labelled diagram
  34. 34.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) pick the build order (d) dream up possible fixes
  36. 36.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine

Answer key

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

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