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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 428 · 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, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) build the model (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  8. 8.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  11. 11.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) build the model (d) make a prototype
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) try it out (d) make it better, retest
  14. 14.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) check it against goals (d) follow the plan to build
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  19. 19.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) think of wild ideas
  23. 23.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) list the materials
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  26. 26.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  29. 29.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) define the problem
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  34. 34.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Improve
  3. find the limits
  4. no, it repeats
  5. Improve
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. False
  9. Plan
  10. Create
  11. False
  12. try it out
  13. define the problem
  14. Plan
  15. follow the plan to build
  16. Imagine
  17. Plan
  18. Create
  19. Ask
  20. Imagine
  21. False
  22. think of wild ideas
  23. False
  24. make it better, retest
  25. Plan
  26. False
  27. Ask
  28. build the model
  29. False
  30. measure its performance
  31. Plan
  32. Improve
  33. ask who will use it
  34. True
  35. make a prototype
  36. Imagine
  37. Imagine
  38. Ask
  39. Plan
  40. False

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