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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 566 · 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 Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) ask who will use it (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) fix the weak part
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  10. 10.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  25. 25.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  31. 31.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  33. 33.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) redesign after testing (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) think of wild ideas
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) fix the weak part

Answer key

  1. build the model
  2. Ask
  3. fix the weak part
  4. Improve
  5. Create
  6. measure its performance
  7. Ask
  8. Improve
  9. Imagine
  10. True
  11. Plan
  12. Improve
  13. Create
  14. Ask
  15. Imagine
  16. think of wild ideas
  17. Create
  18. Create
  19. Plan
  20. Create
  21. brainstorm many ideas
  22. Test
  23. Test
  24. Ask
  25. False
  26. Create
  27. Imagine
  28. Improve
  29. no, it repeats
  30. define the problem
  31. True
  32. Ask
  33. True
  34. True
  35. Test
  36. redesign after testing
  37. Ask
  38. Plan
  39. make it better, retest
  40. check it against goals

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