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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 444 · 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, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) follow the plan to build (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) redesign after testing (c) think of wild ideas (d) dream up possible fixes
  8. 8.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  11. 11.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  13. 13.🔄 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
  14. 14.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  16. 16.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  21. 21.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  22. 22.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) make a prototype (d) check it against goals
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) build the model (d) check it against goals
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) measure its performance
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (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 pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) check it against goals (d) think of wild ideas
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) build the model (c) measure its performance (d) draw a labelled diagram
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. Ask
  3. draw a labelled diagram
  4. Ask
  5. Improve
  6. dream up possible fixes
  7. measure its performance
  8. False
  9. Create
  10. Create
  11. True
  12. Improve
  13. no, it repeats
  14. False
  15. Ask
  16. True
  17. Improve
  18. Imagine
  19. Imagine
  20. Imagine
  21. Plan
  22. False
  23. define the problem
  24. pick the build order
  25. Create
  26. build the model
  27. Plan
  28. Test
  29. Ask
  30. Imagine
  31. Imagine
  32. fix the weak part
  33. Imagine
  34. Ask
  35. Imagine
  36. False
  37. Plan
  38. check it against goals
  39. make it better, retest
  40. Plan

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