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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 686 · 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) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) follow the plan to build
  5. 5.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) build the model (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) pick the build order (d) redesign after testing
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) make it better, retest (d) measure its performance
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  22. 22.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) make it better, retest
  24. 24.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  31. 31.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make a prototype (c) build the model (d) make it better, retest
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) measure its performance

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Plan
  3. Plan
  4. find the limits
  5. False
  6. build the model
  7. Ask
  8. Improve
  9. pick the build order
  10. Create
  11. Plan
  12. True
  13. False
  14. False
  15. Improve
  16. Ask
  17. measure its performance
  18. Create
  19. Ask
  20. False
  21. Ask
  22. False
  23. brainstorm many ideas
  24. False
  25. Imagine
  26. False
  27. False
  28. Test
  29. Plan
  30. Plan
  31. Ask
  32. Test
  33. True
  34. True
  35. False
  36. Ask
  37. Ask
  38. make it better, retest
  39. Ask
  40. draw a labelled diagram

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