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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 942 · 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 find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  3. 3.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  5. 5.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  8. 8.True or false: to measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) pick the build order (d) define the problem
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  16. 16.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) build the model
  18. 18.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  25. 25.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  29. 29.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part

Answer key

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

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