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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 387 · 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) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) ask who will use it
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) define the problem
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) try it out (c) follow the plan to build (d) build the model
  33. 33.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) pick the build order (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  37. 37.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  39. 39.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) brainstorm many ideas

Answer key

  1. fix the weak part
  2. Ask
  3. Improve
  4. Create
  5. Plan
  6. Plan
  7. Create
  8. Plan
  9. Improve
  10. Test
  11. Plan
  12. Ask
  13. Imagine
  14. Ask
  15. Improve
  16. Test
  17. Improve
  18. redesign after testing
  19. make a prototype
  20. Plan
  21. Test
  22. check it against goals
  23. Imagine
  24. Create
  25. Plan
  26. Imagine
  27. Imagine
  28. define the problem
  29. Plan
  30. Plan
  31. Ask
  32. try it out
  33. False
  34. True
  35. Imagine
  36. brainstorm many ideas
  37. True
  38. Improve
  39. True
  40. make it better, retest

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