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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 376 · 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.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  3. 3.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) build the model (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) check it against goals
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) list the materials
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) check it against goals (d) draw a labelled diagram
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  13. 13.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) follow the plan to build
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  25. 25.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) check it against goals
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) ask who will use it
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) list the materials
  36. 36.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Improve
  39. 39.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Plan
  3. True
  4. build the model
  5. Improve
  6. list the materials
  7. Ask
  8. Create
  9. Improve
  10. Plan
  11. draw a labelled diagram
  12. Ask
  13. False
  14. False
  15. Ask
  16. Improve
  17. make it better, retest
  18. try it out
  19. define the problem
  20. False
  21. no, it repeats
  22. brainstorm many ideas
  23. Imagine
  24. Imagine
  25. True
  26. True
  27. check it against goals
  28. Ask
  29. redesign after testing
  30. Imagine
  31. Plan
  32. Imagine
  33. False
  34. Ask
  35. dream up possible fixes
  36. True
  37. True
  38. Improve
  39. False
  40. False

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