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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 534 · 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 Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) define the problem
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) think of wild ideas (c) pick the build order (d) define the problem
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) try it out
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  13. 13.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  22. 22.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) follow the plan to build (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  40. 40.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. pick the build order
  2. no, it repeats
  3. define the problem
  4. Plan
  5. think of wild ideas
  6. Plan
  7. Plan
  8. Ask
  9. build the model
  10. try it out
  11. Ask
  12. Improve
  13. True
  14. Test
  15. Ask
  16. Test
  17. Improve
  18. Plan
  19. Ask
  20. Imagine
  21. Improve
  22. False
  23. Ask
  24. Imagine
  25. Imagine
  26. redesign after testing
  27. Imagine
  28. Imagine
  29. Plan
  30. draw a labelled diagram
  31. Ask
  32. True
  33. True
  34. Ask
  35. make it better, retest
  36. Imagine
  37. Improve
  38. Create
  39. dream up possible fixes
  40. False

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