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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 279 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 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
  3. 3.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) pick the build order (c) redesign after testing (d) define the problem
  6. 6.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) make a prototype
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) fix the weak part
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  17. 17.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  20. 20.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) build the model
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) check it against goals (d) measure its performance
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) draw a labelled diagram

Answer key

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

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