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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 712 · 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: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) ask who will use it (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) redesign after testing (d) draw a labelled diagram
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) check it against goals (d) build the model
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  24. 24.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  28. 28.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. no, it repeats
  3. Improve
  4. Create
  5. Plan
  6. Improve
  7. Plan
  8. define the problem
  9. Test
  10. make it better, retest
  11. Test
  12. check it against goals
  13. Ask
  14. ask who will use it
  15. find the limits
  16. Imagine
  17. Plan
  18. Create
  19. Test
  20. Ask
  21. Ask
  22. build the model
  23. Create
  24. False
  25. try it out
  26. Imagine
  27. pick the build order
  28. True
  29. Imagine
  30. Ask
  31. Imagine
  32. Test
  33. Ask
  34. False
  35. redesign after testing
  36. make a prototype
  37. measure its performance
  38. follow the plan to build
  39. Ask
  40. Ask

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