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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 672 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  2. 2.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) make a prototype (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance
  7. 7.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  11. 11.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  14. 14.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) measure its performance (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  20. 20.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  24. 24.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  31. 31.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  32. 32.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  34. 34.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to pick the build order is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. False
  3. Ask
  4. Plan
  5. define the problem
  6. fix the weak part
  7. True
  8. Plan
  9. Plan
  10. Test
  11. False
  12. False
  13. make it better, retest
  14. False
  15. redesign after testing
  16. find the limits
  17. Plan
  18. Plan
  19. Test
  20. False
  21. Create
  22. Imagine
  23. measure its performance
  24. True
  25. Ask
  26. Test
  27. check it against goals
  28. Ask
  29. Ask
  30. Ask
  31. Ask
  32. False
  33. Test
  34. False
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Imagine
  39. pick the build order
  40. Plan

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