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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 819 · 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.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) pick the build order (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  15. 15.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  17. 17.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  20. 20.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  21. 21.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) list the materials (c) make a prototype (d) try it out
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  36. 36.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Test
  3. build the model
  4. Imagine
  5. fix the weak part
  6. Create
  7. Ask
  8. Ask
  9. Ask
  10. think of wild ideas
  11. Improve
  12. Plan
  13. Improve
  14. Plan
  15. True
  16. Test
  17. False
  18. Plan
  19. measure its performance
  20. Improve
  21. False
  22. Create
  23. Imagine
  24. Ask
  25. pick the build order
  26. Improve
  27. Improve
  28. Test
  29. draw a labelled diagram
  30. Ask
  31. True
  32. False
  33. True
  34. try it out
  35. Test
  36. True
  37. Plan
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Create

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