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Engineering Design Process

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

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What is the most important thing to do during the first step of the engineering design process?

Ask questions

Brainstorm & Select

Create (Build a Model/Prototype)

Test and Evaluate Prototype

What step of the engineering design process generates ideas?

Define the problem

Brainstorm & Select

Create (Build a Model/Prototype)

Test and Evaluate Prototype

When should you document changes to a design or drawing?

Improve or

Analyze the Solution

Only if someone asks for it

Create or Design a Solution

Develop a Solution

You want to build a robot that helps someone in a wheelchair. What should you do first?

Design a Solution then Test it

Imagine or

Brainstorm possibilities

Ask Questions or

Define the Problem

Create/ Build a prototype

You have designed and built a prototype robot that can pick up trash. What is the next step?

Test the prototype in different environments and conditions

Keep the prototype in storage and never use it

Abandon the project and start a new one

Sell the prototype to the highest bidder

When engineers are looking for more information in order to begin the designing phase, what step would they be using?

a. Ask / Define the problem

b. Improve / Evaluate your solutions

c. Test / Test it

d. Imagine / Do your research

During which step of the Engineering Design Process do you experiment with the prototype under controlled conditions and collect /record data?

a. Ask / Define the problem

b. Improve / Evaluate your solutions

c. Test / Test it

d. Imagine / Do your research

It is important to sketch detailed drawings/blueprints and ask for feedback. This happens during which step of the Design Process?

a. Ask / Define the problem

b. Improve / Evaluate your solutions

c. Plan / Design your solution

d. Imagine / Do your research

What is an engineer?

A person who uses their creativity and understanding of materials, tools mathematics, and science to design things that solve problems

A means of judging. using a standard, rule, or test.

A set of steps for developing products and processes that solve problem

a combination of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics education to form an engaging field of study

10.

When engineers are ready to begin designing, they work together to brainstorm. No idea is too strange during this phase. Which phase are they using?

a. Improve / Evaluate your solutions

b. Plan / Design your solution

c. Imagine / Do your research

d. Imagine / Develop a possible solution

11.

A technology company has identified the need for a smaller laptop computer that weighs less, but they do not have enough knowledge about how to build it. What would be the next logical step engineers would take to design and produce this laptop computer?

a. Build a new type of laptop battery

b. Research current laptop technology

c. Build a prototype computer

d. Redesign

12.

Technicians plan to develop a new type of keyboard that will have alphabet letters in different positions from a standard keyboard. Which will best help the technicians decide if the new keyboard is an improvement over the standard one?

a. build a prototype using constraints

b. asking people their opinions of how they like standard keyboards

c. analyzing the problems that people have using standard keyboards

d. comparing the speeds at which people type on each style of keyboard

13.

Rodrigo made a bird feeder. He placed the feeder in the yard and watched the birds. He saw that the birds could not get through the hole in the feeder. What should Rodrigo do next?

IMPROVE or Evaluate the solution

Create or Build a Prototype

Define the problem or ASK

Communicate your solution

14.

iteration/iterate

an original model

The problem you are trying to solve and the reason for building your prototype.

Everything you learn about the problem that you are trying to solve, so you can learn from the experience of others.

To repeat in order to achieve, or get closer to, a desired goal

15.

A constraint is...

an original model

The problem you are trying to solve and the reason for building your prototype.

A limitation such as time, materials, or money.

To repeat in order to achieve, or get closer to, a desired goal

16.

To examine and judge carefully by checking the strengths (good) and limitations (bad)

Limitations or restrictions...design constraints may be physical or social.

Design a solution

Build a prototype

Analyze the Solution

17.

When brainstorming, how many ideas should you come up with?

one idea for each partner

as many as you can!

one idea

two ideas

18.

CRITERIA means...

what is necessary to be successful in solving the problem

the things that you are limited by (example: time or materials)

how you will be judged

the thing that keeps you from finishing your prototype

19.

What should you do to best understand a problem?

Ask who, what and why the problem exists

Research the problem

Determine whether it’s feasible or realistic to solve the problem

All of the above

20.

What is another name for a model?

a draw back

a focused solution

a variable

a prototype

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Engineering Design Process

Total questions: 20

Worksheet time: 40mins

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