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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 553 · 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 fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) fix the weak part (c) pick the build order (d) make a prototype
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  5. 5.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  9. 9.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  23. 23.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) make it better, retest
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  36. 36.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  40. 40.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. make a prototype
  3. Imagine
  4. Create
  5. False
  6. False
  7. False
  8. Plan
  9. True
  10. Ask
  11. Plan
  12. Plan
  13. build the model
  14. Ask
  15. Plan
  16. Create
  17. Plan
  18. False
  19. Test
  20. Ask
  21. Improve
  22. Create
  23. no, it repeats
  24. list the materials
  25. ask who will use it
  26. Ask
  27. redesign after testing
  28. Improve
  29. make it better, retest
  30. Ask
  31. Improve
  32. False
  33. False
  34. Ask
  35. Plan
  36. False
  37. Ask
  38. dream up possible fixes
  39. Test
  40. True

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