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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 289 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) make it better, retest
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  7. 7.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) check it against goals
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) pick the build order
  15. 15.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) pick the build order (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  19. 19.True or false: to pick the build order is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) think of wild ideas
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  27. 27.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) brainstorm many ideas
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve

Answer key

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

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