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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 564 · 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 comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) pick the build order (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  5. 5.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  11. 11.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  20. 20.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) pick the build order (c) ask who will use it (d) dream up possible fixes
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  27. 27.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) make a prototype (d) fix the weak part
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  31. 31.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  33. 33.True or false: to make a prototype is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) try it out (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  38. 38.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  40. 40.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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