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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 431 · 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.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) define the problem
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  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: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) find the limits
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) find the limits (c) pick the build order (d) redesign after testing
  22. 22.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  24. 24.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  26. 26.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  31. 31.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) try it out
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) make a prototype (d) ask who will use it
  39. 39.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Imagine
  3. Improve
  4. Create
  5. brainstorm many ideas
  6. Improve
  7. Ask
  8. define the problem
  9. Ask
  10. Imagine
  11. Improve
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. Imagine
  15. Imagine
  16. Create
  17. Imagine
  18. fix the weak part
  19. Imagine
  20. pick the build order
  21. redesign after testing
  22. False
  23. no, it repeats
  24. False
  25. Plan
  26. True
  27. Ask
  28. Plan
  29. Plan
  30. Ask
  31. Plan
  32. False
  33. Ask
  34. Ask
  35. Ask
  36. Ask
  37. dream up possible fixes
  38. ask who will use it
  39. True
  40. Imagine

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