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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 908 · 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 try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  4. 4.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) find the limits
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) measure its performance (c) make it better, retest (d) fix the weak part
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  20. 20.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) build the model
  28. 28.True or false: to measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  34. 34.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  36. 36.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  40. 40.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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