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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 163 · 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 design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  8. 8.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  10. 10.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  14. 14.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) list the materials (c) fix the weak part (d) find the limits
  17. 17.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) find the limits (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  30. 30.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  33. 33.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) define the problem
  36. 36.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  38. 38.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Plan
  3. Test
  4. Plan
  5. Imagine
  6. False
  7. Ask
  8. True
  9. check it against goals
  10. False
  11. make it better, retest
  12. Create
  13. Ask
  14. no, it repeats
  15. Plan
  16. list the materials
  17. False
  18. True
  19. Improve
  20. build the model
  21. Improve
  22. True
  23. Imagine
  24. Imagine
  25. dream up possible fixes
  26. fix the weak part
  27. Ask
  28. define the problem
  29. Improve
  30. True
  31. Imagine
  32. Ask
  33. True
  34. Create
  35. draw a labelled diagram
  36. True
  37. Create
  38. False
  39. Improve
  40. Create

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