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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 572 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) measure its performance (d) dream up possible fixes
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) list the materials (d) check it against goals
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  15. 15.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  17. 17.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) find the limits (c) redesign after testing (d) make a prototype
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔄 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
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  26. 26.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  33. 33.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) make it better, retest
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  38. 38.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. define the problem
  3. pick the build order
  4. Improve
  5. Plan
  6. Ask
  7. think of wild ideas
  8. dream up possible fixes
  9. Improve
  10. Improve
  11. Imagine
  12. brainstorm many ideas
  13. Ask
  14. build the model
  15. True
  16. follow the plan to build
  17. True
  18. Plan
  19. make it better, retest
  20. redesign after testing
  21. Imagine
  22. Ask
  23. no, it repeats
  24. Improve
  25. find the limits
  26. False
  27. Test
  28. Ask
  29. Plan
  30. Imagine
  31. Test
  32. Ask
  33. False
  34. ask who will use it
  35. Imagine
  36. Imagine
  37. Improve
  38. True
  39. Ask
  40. Plan

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