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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 482 · 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 of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) redesign after testing
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) try it out (c) check it against goals (d) make a prototype
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  11. 11.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  14. 14.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  16. 16.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) fix the weak part
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest
  27. 27.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  37. 37.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  39. 39.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes

Answer key

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

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