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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 611 · 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.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  8. 8.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) check it against goals (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) redesign after testing (c) make a prototype (d) ask who will use it
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  24. 24.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) ask who will use it (d) draw a labelled diagram
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  33. 33.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test

Answer key

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

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