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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 354 · 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 think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  5. 5.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) find the limits (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  8. 8.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  11. 11.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  14. 14.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  17. 17.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: to pick the build order is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) dream up possible fixes (d) check it against goals
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  29. 29.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  38. 38.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to make a prototype is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Create
  3. Improve
  4. Ask
  5. False
  6. make it better, retest
  7. Ask
  8. False
  9. Plan
  10. Create
  11. False
  12. Improve
  13. Test
  14. Ask
  15. follow the plan to build
  16. Plan
  17. False
  18. False
  19. True
  20. Ask
  21. False
  22. Ask
  23. Imagine
  24. Plan
  25. Plan
  26. check it against goals
  27. Plan
  28. ask who will use it
  29. True
  30. Test
  31. Create
  32. Improve
  33. True
  34. True
  35. Plan
  36. Ask
  37. Test
  38. True
  39. Plan
  40. False

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