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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 167 · 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) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) follow the plan to build (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  7. 7.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) measure its performance (d) list the materials
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) list the materials
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  14. 14.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  20. 20.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) measure its performance (c) make a prototype (d) fix the weak part
  25. 25.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) redesign after testing
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  32. 32.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  33. 33.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  40. 40.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. pick the build order
  2. Ask
  3. define the problem
  4. list the materials
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. True
  8. Improve
  9. measure its performance
  10. brainstorm many ideas
  11. Imagine
  12. build the model
  13. Create
  14. False
  15. Improve
  16. Ask
  17. Ask
  18. Ask
  19. Create
  20. no, it repeats
  21. Plan
  22. Improve
  23. fix the weak part
  24. make a prototype
  25. False
  26. Imagine
  27. Imagine
  28. True
  29. redesign after testing
  30. Imagine
  31. Plan
  32. Plan
  33. Improve
  34. Test
  35. Ask
  36. Imagine
  37. False
  38. Test
  39. check it against goals
  40. True

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