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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 380 · 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) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  4. 4.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  6. 6.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 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
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  14. 14.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  17. 17.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  20. 20.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) make it better, retest (d) check it against goals
  31. 31.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) find the limits
  36. 36.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) draw a labelled diagram

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. True
  5. Imagine
  6. True
  7. Imagine
  8. Improve
  9. Create
  10. Ask
  11. Create
  12. no, it repeats
  13. Plan
  14. Ask
  15. measure its performance
  16. list the materials
  17. False
  18. Improve
  19. Plan
  20. True
  21. Improve
  22. Imagine
  23. Plan
  24. Create
  25. False
  26. think of wild ideas
  27. Imagine
  28. Imagine
  29. Test
  30. build the model
  31. False
  32. Create
  33. Test
  34. True
  35. fix the weak part
  36. True
  37. Improve
  38. Test
  39. Ask
  40. make it better, retest

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