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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 378 · 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 Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  6. 6.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  10. 10.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  16. 16.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  19. 19.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) try it out (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  35. 35.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  39. 39.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) brainstorm many ideas

Answer key

  1. draw a labelled diagram
  2. Improve
  3. Imagine
  4. Ask
  5. measure its performance
  6. False
  7. Improve
  8. think of wild ideas
  9. Improve
  10. True
  11. Plan
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. Test
  15. try it out
  16. False
  17. no, it repeats
  18. Test
  19. False
  20. fix the weak part
  21. Create
  22. True
  23. True
  24. False
  25. True
  26. Plan
  27. check it against goals
  28. define the problem
  29. Test
  30. Test
  31. Imagine
  32. Improve
  33. Create
  34. Create
  35. True
  36. False
  37. Imagine
  38. Test
  39. False
  40. redesign after testing

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