Engineering Design Process

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

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