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Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 485 · 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 “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) check it against goals
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  9. 9.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  11. 11.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) redesign after testing (c) try it out (d) make a prototype
  13. 13.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  15. 15.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  25. 25.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) list the materials
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) list the materials
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) make it better, retest (c) ask who will use it (d) define the problem
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  37. 37.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  39. 39.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals

Answer key

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

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