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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 479 · 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 pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) measure its performance (c) dream up possible fixes (d) try it out
  3. 3.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) follow the plan to build (c) find the limits (d) make it better, retest
  6. 6.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) ask who will use it (d) build the model
  8. 8.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  11. 11.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) build the model
  19. 19.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  23. 23.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: to measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) try it out (d) make it better, retest
  29. 29.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  33. 33.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  36. 36.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) follow the plan to build

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. dream up possible fixes
  3. False
  4. True
  5. make it better, retest
  6. False
  7. draw a labelled diagram
  8. False
  9. True
  10. Imagine
  11. False
  12. Ask
  13. Ask
  14. Ask
  15. Imagine
  16. Ask
  17. Create
  18. redesign after testing
  19. True
  20. Improve
  21. Improve
  22. Plan
  23. False
  24. False
  25. Ask
  26. Ask
  27. Imagine
  28. list the materials
  29. True
  30. Plan
  31. Plan
  32. Ask
  33. True
  34. measure its performance
  35. Improve
  36. False
  37. Create
  38. brainstorm many ideas
  39. Create
  40. define the problem

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