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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 933 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  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 “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) make it better, retest (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) fix the weak part (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make a prototype
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  15. 15.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) find the limits (c) try it out (d) pick the build order
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  22. 22.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  27. 27.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  30. 30.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  32. 32.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  37. 37.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) check it against goals (d) draw a labelled diagram
  39. 39.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine

Answer key

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

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