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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 322 · 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 follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) give up
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) redesign after testing (d) find the limits
  5. 5.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  8. 8.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  15. 15.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  20. 20.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  25. 25.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  27. 27.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  34. 34.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  37. 37.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) try it out
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) make it better, retest (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Improve
  3. Plan
  4. redesign after testing
  5. False
  6. pick the build order
  7. Ask
  8. False
  9. Ask
  10. Imagine
  11. Plan
  12. Improve
  13. Imagine
  14. Ask
  15. True
  16. Plan
  17. Ask
  18. Imagine
  19. Create
  20. True
  21. Test
  22. Plan
  23. Imagine
  24. Test
  25. True
  26. Improve
  27. False
  28. False
  29. make a prototype
  30. Create
  31. think of wild ideas
  32. Improve
  33. no, it repeats
  34. False
  35. Test
  36. Create
  37. False
  38. Ask
  39. try it out
  40. make it better, retest

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