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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 374 · 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, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  5. 5.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) try it out (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  15. 15.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) think of wild ideas (c) pick the build order (d) redesign after testing
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) draw a labelled diagram
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  19. 19.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  22. 22.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) measure its performance
  26. 26.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  28. 28.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  32. 32.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  36. 36.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan

Answer key

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

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