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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 300 · 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 find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) redesign after testing
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  14. 14.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  17. 17.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) fix the weak part (d) build the model
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  23. 23.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) try it out (d) check it against goals
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) fix the weak part
  38. 38.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask

Answer key

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

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