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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 49 · 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 list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) ask who will use it
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  4. 4.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) follow the plan to build (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) try it out
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  10. 10.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  17. 17.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  23. 23.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  26. 26.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  34. 34.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  39. 39.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask

Answer key

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

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