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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 304 · 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 “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) pick the build order (c) redesign after testing (d) define the problem
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) make a prototype (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  7. 7.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) make it better, retest (c) think of wild ideas (d) brainstorm many ideas
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  23. 23.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  24. 24.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) find the limits
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  29. 29.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  35. 35.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Test
  3. Improve
  4. Improve
  5. redesign after testing
  6. list the materials
  7. True
  8. Ask
  9. make it better, retest
  10. Imagine
  11. Create
  12. False
  13. Test
  14. Ask
  15. think of wild ideas
  16. check it against goals
  17. Improve
  18. True
  19. True
  20. Ask
  21. fix the weak part
  22. Plan
  23. no, it repeats
  24. True
  25. True
  26. make a prototype
  27. Create
  28. ask who will use it
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Imagine
  32. Improve
  33. Ask
  34. Plan
  35. Ask
  36. Plan
  37. Improve
  38. False
  39. True
  40. True

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