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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 521 · 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 brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) brainstorm many ideas
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  7. 7.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  9. 9.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  13. 13.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) brainstorm many ideas
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) brainstorm many ideas
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  26. 26.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) measure its performance (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  34. 34.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  36. 36.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) fix the weak part (d) find the limits
  39. 39.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) fix the weak part

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Ask
  3. Plan
  4. check it against goals
  5. Improve
  6. Improve
  7. True
  8. Plan
  9. Improve
  10. Imagine
  11. Create
  12. no, it repeats
  13. Plan
  14. dream up possible fixes
  15. Plan
  16. build the model
  17. Test
  18. False
  19. Ask
  20. Create
  21. ask who will use it
  22. Ask
  23. Create
  24. Ask
  25. Test
  26. True
  27. Plan
  28. Improve
  29. Create
  30. Test
  31. Imagine
  32. list the materials
  33. try it out
  34. True
  35. Ask
  36. False
  37. Plan
  38. find the limits
  39. False
  40. brainstorm many ideas

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