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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 853 · 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 ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  7. 7.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  12. 12.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) ask who will use it (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  20. 20.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  27. 27.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) try it out
  37. 37.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  40. 40.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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