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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 330 · 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) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) list the materials (d) measure its performance
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  12. 12.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  14. 14.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  22. 22.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  24. 24.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) dream up possible fixes
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  29. 29.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  31. 31.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) think of wild ideas (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) fix the weak part
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) dream up possible fixes (c) list the materials (d) ask who will use it

Answer key

  1. redesign after testing
  2. Create
  3. Improve
  4. follow the plan to build
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. Imagine
  9. Improve
  10. Ask
  11. Plan
  12. False
  13. Improve
  14. True
  15. True
  16. Improve
  17. Ask
  18. find the limits
  19. Ask
  20. Imagine
  21. no, it repeats
  22. Plan
  23. Create
  24. True
  25. Test
  26. Plan
  27. dream up possible fixes
  28. Imagine
  29. False
  30. Ask
  31. False
  32. False
  33. fix the weak part
  34. brainstorm many ideas
  35. build the model
  36. Create
  37. Imagine
  38. Ask
  39. Ask
  40. make it better, retest

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