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Engineering Process

Total questions: 21

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What is the first step?

a)

identify and research the problem

b)

brainstorm

c)

design

d)

build

2.

What is the second step?

a)

design

b)

identify and research the problem

c)

brainstorm

d)

test

3.

What is the third step?

a)

brainstorm

b)

design

c)

test

d)

build

4.

What is the fourth step?

a)

evaluate

b)

test

c)

design

d)

build

5.

What is the fifth step?

a)

test

b)

build

c)

evaluate

d)

share solutions

6.

What is the sixth step?

a)

share solutions

b)

evaluate

c)

test

d)

build

7.

What is the seventh step?

a)

evaluate

b)

build

c)

test

d)

share solutions

8.

What are constraints?

a)

sharing ideas

b)

guidelines that are needed to be successful

c)

factors that limit what can be done

d)

a model of a new design

9.

What are criteria?

a)

guidelines that are needed to be successful

b)

a model of a new design

c)

sharing creative ideas

d)

factors that limit what can be done

10.

One day in November, Marisol opened her locker and had to quickly jump back to avoid the cascade of her belongings falling to the floor. “Oh no,” she yelled. “This isn’t cool!” Marisol quickly began to scoop her things back into her locker, but after putting everything away, she was late to her next class. Unfortunately, this wasn’t the first time the locker avalanche had happened. “I’ve got to find a way to organize my locker,” she said to herself. What stage of the Engineering Design Process is this?

a)

Identifying/Defining a Problem

b)

Developing Ideas

c)

Evaluating Ideas

d)

Criteria/Constraint

11.

In order to generate possible ideas for her own locker, Marisol used her smartphone to take photographs of her friends’ lockers—or at least photographs of those that were organized. She would have to make an organizer herself. Since her parents only gave her a few dollars a week for allowance, she’d have to make an organizer for less than $3. This would describe what part of the engineering design process?

a)

The constraints

b)

The criteria

c)

Developing Ideas

d)

Evaluating Ideas

12.

What do you have to do before building "a prototype"? Select all that apply

a)

Define the problem

b)

Do a research

c)

Communicate results

d)

Specify requirements

e)

Brainstorm, Evaluate & choose

13.

Why is it important that multiple people be included in the

brainstorming process?

a)

More ideas are uncovered

b)

Different backgrounds will allow for different ideas to take shape

c)

It creates ownership of all members on a team

d)

All of the above

14.

Is the diagram showing the correct order of the Engineering process?

a)

YES

b)

NO

c)

I don't know

15.

What is a good reason for having an engineering

design process?

a)

To be able to develop the most successful engineering product

b)

To complete a scientific experiment

c)

It’s the law of engineering

d)

The products will sell for more money

16.
Engineers are people who design and build things to solve _____
a)
riddles
b)
puzzles
c)
crosswords
d)
problems
17.
When solving problems, the series of steps that engineers follow is called _____
a)
the engineering method
b)
the engineering process
c)
the engineering problem
d)
the scientific method
18.
Before you can solve a problem, the first thing you have to do is _____
a)
define the problem
b)
design your solution
c)
build a protoype
d)
test your solution
19.
Once you've figured out what problem you want to tackle, you need to _____
a)
do your research
b)
design your solution
c)
build a prototype
d)
test your solution
20.
A simple model that lets you test out your design is called _____
a)
protoplasm
b)
an archetype
c)
a prototype
d)
a proton
21.
To see if it works like they want it to, engineers need to _____
a)
do their research
b)
design their solution
c)
define their problem
d)
test their solution