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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 392 · 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 redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  3. 3.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) draw a labelled diagram
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  11. 11.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  16. 16.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) find the limits
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) make a prototype
  24. 24.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) make it better, retest
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) check it against goals (d) pick the build order
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) define the problem
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  39. 39.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Plan
  3. False
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. Improve
  7. find the limits
  8. measure its performance
  9. Imagine
  10. Plan
  11. True
  12. ask who will use it
  13. Ask
  14. Plan
  15. no, it repeats
  16. Plan
  17. Improve
  18. Ask
  19. dream up possible fixes
  20. Create
  21. Test
  22. Create
  23. make a prototype
  24. False
  25. redesign after testing
  26. Ask
  27. make it better, retest
  28. Imagine
  29. Imagine
  30. Imagine
  31. Plan
  32. Ask
  33. think of wild ideas
  34. Ask
  35. fix the weak part
  36. Ask
  37. Ask
  38. Imagine
  39. True
  40. Imagine

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