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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 574 · 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 Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 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
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) redesign after testing
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) fix the weak part (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) define the problem (c) fix the weak part (d) redesign after testing
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) make it better, retest
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  32. 32.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create

Answer key

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

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