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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 467 · 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 find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) follow the plan to build (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  19. 19.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) dream up possible fixes
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  32. 32.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  37. 37.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask

Answer key

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

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