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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 357 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  14. 14.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  17. 17.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  19. 19.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  25. 25.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) ask who will use it (d) try it out
  27. 27.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) try it out (c) check it against goals (d) dream up possible fixes
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Imagine
  3. Plan
  4. Ask
  5. Create
  6. False
  7. True
  8. Improve
  9. Plan
  10. Ask
  11. redesign after testing
  12. Ask
  13. Test
  14. False
  15. Plan
  16. Imagine
  17. False
  18. Imagine
  19. False
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Test
  23. Create
  24. Ask
  25. True
  26. try it out
  27. False
  28. no, it repeats
  29. Test
  30. Imagine
  31. dream up possible fixes
  32. False
  33. Ask
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Ask
  37. Test
  38. Plan
  39. True
  40. True

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