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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 718 · 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  5. 5.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  7. 7.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) pick the build order (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) make a prototype (d) pick the build order
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) measure its performance (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) measure its performance (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) follow the plan to build (d) ask who will use it
  21. 21.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  25. 25.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  36. 36.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) make it better, retest (d) measure its performance
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) think of wild ideas (d) try it out

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. Improve
  5. False
  6. Imagine
  7. False
  8. False
  9. define the problem
  10. fix the weak part
  11. build the model
  12. no, it repeats
  13. Plan
  14. Improve
  15. Imagine
  16. Ask
  17. Ask
  18. Test
  19. measure its performance
  20. follow the plan to build
  21. True
  22. False
  23. Imagine
  24. redesign after testing
  25. Plan
  26. think of wild ideas
  27. Imagine
  28. Plan
  29. True
  30. False
  31. False
  32. False
  33. Test
  34. Ask
  35. Ask
  36. True
  37. False
  38. False
  39. make it better, retest
  40. try it out

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