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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 678 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  6. 6.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  11. 11.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  16. 16.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) fix the weak part
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance
  19. 19.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) build the model
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  25. 25.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make a prototype (c) redesign after testing (d) find the limits
  36. 36.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 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
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  40. 40.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Create
  3. Ask
  4. Create
  5. Imagine
  6. True
  7. Improve
  8. Create
  9. Ask
  10. Ask
  11. True
  12. Test
  13. Plan
  14. Improve
  15. draw a labelled diagram
  16. False
  17. fix the weak part
  18. think of wild ideas
  19. False
  20. Plan
  21. Improve
  22. Imagine
  23. ask who will use it
  24. Plan
  25. True
  26. Imagine
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Create
  30. Test
  31. Improve
  32. Plan
  33. False
  34. Ask
  35. find the limits
  36. True
  37. False
  38. no, it repeats
  39. Plan
  40. Plan

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