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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 149 · 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.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) follow the plan to build
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) make it better, retest
  6. 6.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  13. 13.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) think of wild ideas (d) make a prototype
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  20. 20.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) think of wild ideas
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  30. 30.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) make a prototype
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  34. 34.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) ask who will use it
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) make a prototype (d) measure its performance
  38. 38.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve

Answer key

  1. draw a labelled diagram
  2. Create
  3. Imagine
  4. follow the plan to build
  5. pick the build order
  6. True
  7. Imagine
  8. Imagine
  9. Ask
  10. Plan
  11. Imagine
  12. Create
  13. True
  14. Ask
  15. Improve
  16. Improve
  17. try it out
  18. Ask
  19. define the problem
  20. no, it repeats
  21. make a prototype
  22. Create
  23. Test
  24. Imagine
  25. redesign after testing
  26. think of wild ideas
  27. Improve
  28. True
  29. Ask
  30. True
  31. dream up possible fixes
  32. Ask
  33. Imagine
  34. True
  35. False
  36. ask who will use it
  37. measure its performance
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Test

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