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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 734 · 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, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  3. 3.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) check it against goals (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) brainstorm many ideas
  14. 14.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) check it against goals
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  21. 21.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) brainstorm many ideas
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to pick the build order is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  39. 39.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Ask
  3. True
  4. Improve
  5. Improve
  6. Test
  7. Imagine
  8. define the problem
  9. Test
  10. Ask
  11. Test
  12. build the model
  13. redesign after testing
  14. Ask
  15. check it against goals
  16. Improve
  17. Ask
  18. False
  19. False
  20. Imagine
  21. False
  22. Plan
  23. follow the plan to build
  24. Test
  25. Imagine
  26. Create
  27. Create
  28. False
  29. think of wild ideas
  30. Plan
  31. Ask
  32. False
  33. False
  34. False
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. Imagine
  39. True
  40. False

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