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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 202 · 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 dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) think of wild ideas
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) define the problem (c) find the limits (d) check it against goals
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  9. 9.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  12. 12.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  32. 32.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  36. 36.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) pick the build order
  38. 38.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Test
  3. Ask
  4. redesign after testing
  5. Ask
  6. pick the build order
  7. Ask
  8. Create
  9. False
  10. False
  11. Improve
  12. False
  13. False
  14. True
  15. Imagine
  16. measure its performance
  17. Create
  18. Imagine
  19. Improve
  20. Improve
  21. Create
  22. Ask
  23. Imagine
  24. Plan
  25. True
  26. Create
  27. Create
  28. Improve
  29. Imagine
  30. Ask
  31. Plan
  32. no, it repeats
  33. Imagine
  34. False
  35. ask who will use it
  36. True
  37. follow the plan to build
  38. True
  39. Test
  40. Ask

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