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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 579 · 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.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) measure its performance (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) try it out (d) make a prototype
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  15. 15.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  31. 31.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) ask who will use it
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  36. 36.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. no, it repeats
  2. brainstorm many ideas
  3. Plan
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. Imagine
  7. Improve
  8. try it out
  9. Improve
  10. Create
  11. draw a labelled diagram
  12. Ask
  13. Imagine
  14. Ask
  15. False
  16. Plan
  17. Ask
  18. False
  19. True
  20. Improve
  21. Create
  22. Improve
  23. pick the build order
  24. Imagine
  25. False
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Test
  29. Imagine
  30. Create
  31. True
  32. Plan
  33. fix the weak part
  34. True
  35. Test
  36. False
  37. Create
  38. Plan
  39. list the materials
  40. Plan

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