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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 199 · 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 Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) fix the weak part
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) follow the plan to build (d) redesign after testing
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) check it against goals
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) dream up possible fixes
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  21. 21.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance
  23. 23.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) list the materials (d) ask who will use it
  30. 30.True or false: to make a prototype is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) think of wild ideas (d) find the limits
  34. 34.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan

Answer key

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

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