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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 913 · 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 fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  10. 10.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) make it better, retest
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) make it better, retest (c) list the materials (d) think of wild ideas
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  16. 16.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  19. 19.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) define the problem
  25. 25.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) define the problem (c) measure its performance (d) draw a labelled diagram
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan

Answer key

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

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