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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 263 · 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 redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  10. 10.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) measure its performance (d) redesign after testing
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  15. 15.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  16. 16.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  18. 18.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) make a prototype (d) find the limits
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  21. 21.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  25. 25.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) dream up possible fixes (c) pick the build order (d) check it against goals
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) try it out (d) check it against goals
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  39. 39.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Ask
  3. Improve
  4. Imagine
  5. Imagine
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. Create
  9. define the problem
  10. True
  11. Plan
  12. Test
  13. measure its performance
  14. draw a labelled diagram
  15. Improve
  16. True
  17. make a prototype
  18. False
  19. check it against goals
  20. Create
  21. False
  22. no, it repeats
  23. False
  24. Improve
  25. False
  26. brainstorm many ideas
  27. Ask
  28. False
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Plan
  32. True
  33. ask who will use it
  34. dream up possible fixes
  35. Imagine
  36. find the limits
  37. follow the plan to build
  38. Improve
  39. False
  40. True

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