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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 314 · 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 Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) define the problem (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  11. 11.🔄 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
  12. 12.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  16. 16.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) think of wild ideas
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) try it out
  20. 20.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  28. 28.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) think of wild ideas
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  36. 36.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  39. 39.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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