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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 878 · 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.True or false: to make a prototype is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  9. 9.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  13. 13.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  19. 19.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) redesign after testing (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) ask who will use it
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  28. 28.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  31. 31.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  37. 37.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  39. 39.True or false: to make a prototype is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. False
  3. Improve
  4. Imagine
  5. pick the build order
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. no, it repeats
  9. True
  10. False
  11. Imagine
  12. Improve
  13. False
  14. False
  15. make a prototype
  16. Ask
  17. True
  18. Ask
  19. True
  20. Improve
  21. Create
  22. False
  23. check it against goals
  24. Ask
  25. ask who will use it
  26. try it out
  27. Imagine
  28. Plan
  29. brainstorm many ideas
  30. Imagine
  31. False
  32. Test
  33. Ask
  34. Imagine
  35. Plan
  36. Ask
  37. True
  38. Imagine
  39. False
  40. Create

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