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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 577 · 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: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  4. 4.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  8. 8.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to pick the build order is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  21. 21.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  26. 26.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) find the limits (d) make it better, retest
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) 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 Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) ask who will use it (c) measure its performance (d) think of wild ideas
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  39. 39.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Imagine
  3. Ask
  4. True
  5. True
  6. Improve
  7. Imagine
  8. True
  9. False
  10. Improve
  11. Ask
  12. build the model
  13. follow the plan to build
  14. Improve
  15. Create
  16. Create
  17. Ask
  18. False
  19. redesign after testing
  20. Imagine
  21. False
  22. True
  23. Test
  24. define the problem
  25. Plan
  26. False
  27. Plan
  28. Ask
  29. make it better, retest
  30. Test
  31. no, it repeats
  32. Plan
  33. Ask
  34. True
  35. think of wild ideas
  36. Create
  37. True
  38. Plan
  39. True
  40. Plan

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