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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 560 · 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 dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) measure its performance (d) draw a labelled diagram
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  11. 11.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  14. 14.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) measure its performance
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) define the problem
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make a prototype
  31. 31.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) build the model (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. measure its performance
  5. Test
  6. Ask
  7. Plan
  8. Plan
  9. find the limits
  10. Test
  11. no, it repeats
  12. define the problem
  13. Ask
  14. False
  15. False
  16. Imagine
  17. False
  18. brainstorm many ideas
  19. Improve
  20. Improve
  21. Ask
  22. build the model
  23. Test
  24. ask who will use it
  25. Ask
  26. Imagine
  27. True
  28. fix the weak part
  29. Improve
  30. make a prototype
  31. False
  32. Create
  33. try it out
  34. Plan
  35. False
  36. Improve
  37. Create
  38. False
  39. True
  40. Imagine

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