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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 635 · 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: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) make a prototype
  4. 4.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  8. 8.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  11. 11.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  17. 17.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) make it better, retest
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  22. 22.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) try it out (d) make it better, retest
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  31. 31.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) list the materials (c) fix the weak part (d) brainstorm many ideas
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  39. 39.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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