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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 317 · 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) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  3. 3.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  10. 10.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) make a prototype
  12. 12.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  21. 21.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) draw a labelled diagram
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) make a prototype
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  28. 28.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  30. 30.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) follow the plan to build
  32. 32.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) find the limits (d) check it against goals
  35. 35.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Test
  3. True
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. Plan
  7. Test
  8. Plan
  9. redesign after testing
  10. False
  11. check it against goals
  12. False
  13. False
  14. True
  15. False
  16. think of wild ideas
  17. Ask
  18. Create
  19. Create
  20. Ask
  21. True
  22. False
  23. Improve
  24. draw a labelled diagram
  25. define the problem
  26. Test
  27. Imagine
  28. False
  29. Improve
  30. False
  31. pick the build order
  32. False
  33. Imagine
  34. make it better, retest
  35. False
  36. Improve
  37. Improve
  38. Ask
  39. Create
  40. Plan

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