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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 575 · 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 draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  10. 10.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) dream up possible fixes (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) draw a labelled diagram
  14. 14.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) follow the plan to build
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  26. 26.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  30. 30.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) check it against goals (c) follow the plan to build (d) pick the build order
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) think of wild ideas
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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