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Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 424 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  4. 4.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  9. 9.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) measure its performance (c) list the materials (d) check it against goals
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) check it against goals (c) make a prototype (d) build the model
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  24. 24.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) follow the plan to build (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  27. 27.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  30. 30.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) follow the plan to build (c) fix the weak part (d) think of wild ideas
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make it better, retest (d) redesign after testing
  36. 36.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) build the model (c) measure its performance (d) ask who will use it
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  40. 40.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Improve
  3. Plan
  4. True
  5. Plan
  6. Imagine
  7. False
  8. Ask
  9. Improve
  10. Test
  11. no, it repeats
  12. dream up possible fixes
  13. Plan
  14. Test
  15. build the model
  16. Plan
  17. Imagine
  18. Ask
  19. check it against goals
  20. try it out
  21. list the materials
  22. draw a labelled diagram
  23. Create
  24. True
  25. find the limits
  26. define the problem
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Improve
  30. Plan
  31. Imagine
  32. Imagine
  33. Test
  34. fix the weak part
  35. follow the plan to build
  36. False
  37. Improve
  38. ask who will use it
  39. Test
  40. False

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