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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 203 · 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 make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔄 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
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) define the problem
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) make a prototype
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) build the model
  20. 20.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) check it against goals (d) make a prototype
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  27. 27.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) ask who will use it
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) follow the plan to build (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) make it better, retest (d) list the materials
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  37. 37.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Test
  3. Ask
  4. Plan
  5. Ask
  6. Imagine
  7. Improve
  8. Ask
  9. no, it repeats
  10. Imagine
  11. Test
  12. False
  13. Ask
  14. Plan
  15. ask who will use it
  16. define the problem
  17. pick the build order
  18. Improve
  19. build the model
  20. False
  21. Plan
  22. Plan
  23. check it against goals
  24. Ask
  25. Plan
  26. Test
  27. Plan
  28. True
  29. Ask
  30. Ask
  31. Imagine
  32. brainstorm many ideas
  33. make it better, retest
  34. Test
  35. list the materials
  36. Imagine
  37. True
  38. Ask
  39. Test
  40. False

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