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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 365 · 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.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) find the limits (d) pick the build order
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) check it against goals (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  7. 7.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  13. 13.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) list the materials (d) ask who will use it
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) dream up possible fixes (d) check it against goals
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  24. 24.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  27. 27.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) make it better, retest (c) pick the build order (d) check it against goals
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) make a prototype
  32. 32.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) dream up possible fixes (c) try it out (d) build the model
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  37. 37.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) give up
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  39. 39.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) check it against goals

Answer key

  1. measure its performance
  2. Improve
  3. Improve
  4. Ask
  5. brainstorm many ideas
  6. ask who will use it
  7. True
  8. Create
  9. Plan
  10. no, it repeats
  11. follow the plan to build
  12. Plan
  13. True
  14. Plan
  15. list the materials
  16. Improve
  17. Ask
  18. Ask
  19. Imagine
  20. fix the weak part
  21. Ask
  22. check it against goals
  23. Plan
  24. False
  25. try it out
  26. make a prototype
  27. True
  28. Ask
  29. pick the build order
  30. Create
  31. make it better, retest
  32. False
  33. Test
  34. build the model
  35. Ask
  36. Create
  37. Improve
  38. Improve
  39. False
  40. define the problem

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