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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 914 · 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 make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) list the materials
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  13. 13.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  18. 18.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) dream up possible fixes
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) fix the weak part (d) follow the plan to build
  28. 28.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  30. 30.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) redesign after testing (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  40. 40.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test

Answer key

  1. False
  2. list the materials
  3. measure its performance
  4. Create
  5. Imagine
  6. Create
  7. Ask
  8. Improve
  9. Imagine
  10. Test
  11. Test
  12. Ask
  13. Ask
  14. Create
  15. Imagine
  16. Plan
  17. Plan
  18. False
  19. Imagine
  20. Improve
  21. Ask
  22. build the model
  23. Ask
  24. Ask
  25. Improve
  26. Ask
  27. follow the plan to build
  28. no, it repeats
  29. Test
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Plan
  33. Test
  34. False
  35. False
  36. Plan
  37. ask who will use it
  38. Test
  39. Create
  40. Plan

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