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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 551 · 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 Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) make it better, retest (d) define the problem
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  7. 7.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) check it against goals (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  14. 14.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  23. 23.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) find the limits
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) follow the plan to build (c) list the materials (d) check it against goals

Answer key

  1. think of wild ideas
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. define the problem
  5. Improve
  6. Imagine
  7. True
  8. Improve
  9. True
  10. Plan
  11. list the materials
  12. Create
  13. draw a labelled diagram
  14. False
  15. True
  16. Test
  17. Plan
  18. ask who will use it
  19. Plan
  20. Imagine
  21. Ask
  22. Improve
  23. Improve
  24. brainstorm many ideas
  25. Improve
  26. no, it repeats
  27. Imagine
  28. Create
  29. True
  30. Test
  31. Plan
  32. Improve
  33. Ask
  34. False
  35. Imagine
  36. Ask
  37. Imagine
  38. Ask
  39. Ask
  40. follow the plan to build

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