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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 188 · 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 pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) brainstorm many ideas
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) fix the weak part (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest
  13. 13.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  14. 14.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  17. 17.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  23. 23.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) try it out (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  25. 25.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) measure its performance (c) redesign after testing (d) brainstorm many ideas
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) define the problem
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve

Answer key

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

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