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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 84 · 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: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  5. 5.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  15. 15.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) follow the plan to build (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  21. 21.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  23. 23.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) fix the weak part
  25. 25.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) find the limits (c) redesign after testing (d) draw a labelled diagram
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  30. 30.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  33. 33.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) try it out (c) redesign after testing (d) think of wild ideas
  37. 37.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create

Answer key

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

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