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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 159 · 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 brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) think of wild ideas
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) follow the plan to build (c) make it better, retest (d) define the problem
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) try it out
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) measure its performance (d) fix the weak part
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  15. 15.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) find the limits
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  20. 20.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) dream up possible fixes
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  25. 25.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  28. 28.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) measure its performance (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  35. 35.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  37. 37.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test

Answer key

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

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