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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 541 · 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 measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  3. 3.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) check it against goals
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) make it better, retest (c) fix the weak part (d) draw a labelled diagram
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) pick the build order
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) make a prototype (c) fix the weak part (d) think of wild ideas
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  21. 21.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) dream up possible fixes
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  30. 30.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) define the problem
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  33. 33.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) pick the build order (d) make it better, retest
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) fix the weak part
  36. 36.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  37. 37.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. Imagine
  3. False
  4. check it against goals
  5. Test
  6. False
  7. draw a labelled diagram
  8. Plan
  9. Plan
  10. Improve
  11. Imagine
  12. dream up possible fixes
  13. fix the weak part
  14. Ask
  15. Plan
  16. Create
  17. Ask
  18. Improve
  19. Ask
  20. Plan
  21. True
  22. False
  23. find the limits
  24. Plan
  25. redesign after testing
  26. Ask
  27. Improve
  28. Ask
  29. Imagine
  30. False
  31. define the problem
  32. ask who will use it
  33. False
  34. pick the build order
  35. brainstorm many ideas
  36. Ask
  37. True
  38. Ask
  39. Imagine
  40. Ask

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