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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 607 · 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.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) pick the build order (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  2. 2.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  8. 8.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 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
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  17. 17.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  20. 20.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) list the materials (d) think of wild ideas
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  27. 27.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) measure its performance
  39. 39.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. make a prototype
  2. True
  3. ask who will use it
  4. Ask
  5. Improve
  6. Imagine
  7. Plan
  8. False
  9. Ask
  10. no, it repeats
  11. Test
  12. Improve
  13. make it better, retest
  14. Ask
  15. Imagine
  16. Ask
  17. False
  18. list the materials
  19. Plan
  20. True
  21. Imagine
  22. Improve
  23. build the model
  24. check it against goals
  25. Imagine
  26. Imagine
  27. False
  28. Imagine
  29. False
  30. True
  31. False
  32. Ask
  33. Ask
  34. Create
  35. Plan
  36. define the problem
  37. Test
  38. brainstorm many ideas
  39. False
  40. Create

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