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Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 838 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  4. 4.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) pick the build order (d) make a prototype
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  9. 9.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  11. 11.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  13. 13.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  14. 14.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  16. 16.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) think of wild ideas (c) dream up possible fixes (d) build the model
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) list the materials
  20. 20.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) check it against goals
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) measure its performance
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype

Answer key

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

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