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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 371 · 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 Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  19. 19.🔄 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
  20. 20.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) find the limits (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  23. 23.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  26. 26.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) ask who will use it
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  37. 37.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  39. 39.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes

Answer key

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

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