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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 549 · 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 find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) pick the build order (d) try it out
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) list the materials
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  22. 22.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) redesign after testing (c) fix the weak part (d) find the limits
  35. 35.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) define the problem (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) follow the plan to build (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve

Answer key

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

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