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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 311 · 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, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) pick the build order (d) think of wild ideas
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) find the limits
  9. 9.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  11. 11.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
  20. 20.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  24. 24.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  28. 28.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  29. 29.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) measure its performance (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) list the materials (d) try it out
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  38. 38.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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