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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 268 · 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 Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  3. 3.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) check it against goals
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  12. 12.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  13. 13.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  21. 21.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  24. 24.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  26. 26.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  30. 30.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) try it out
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. make it better, retest
  2. Ask
  3. False
  4. Improve
  5. Improve
  6. False
  7. Create
  8. Imagine
  9. Ask
  10. build the model
  11. draw a labelled diagram
  12. Improve
  13. False
  14. Ask
  15. Ask
  16. Plan
  17. Imagine
  18. no, it repeats
  19. list the materials
  20. Ask
  21. Plan
  22. Improve
  23. Ask
  24. False
  25. Plan
  26. True
  27. True
  28. False
  29. think of wild ideas
  30. True
  31. Imagine
  32. ask who will use it
  33. fix the weak part
  34. Test
  35. Ask
  36. Ask
  37. Test
  38. redesign after testing
  39. Improve
  40. Imagine

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