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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 621 · 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 Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) think of wild ideas
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) measure its performance (c) ask who will use it (d) dream up possible fixes
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  15. 15.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) follow the plan to build
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) think of wild ideas
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  34. 34.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) measure its performance (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create

Answer key

  1. pick the build order
  2. Improve
  3. Test
  4. Plan
  5. Imagine
  6. follow the plan to build
  7. Ask
  8. Improve
  9. Plan
  10. Test
  11. ask who will use it
  12. Imagine
  13. Plan
  14. Create
  15. Ask
  16. Improve
  17. Test
  18. False
  19. True
  20. False
  21. Create
  22. build the model
  23. Create
  24. Plan
  25. Improve
  26. draw a labelled diagram
  27. think of wild ideas
  28. Ask
  29. True
  30. Plan
  31. Create
  32. make it better, retest
  33. Ask
  34. False
  35. True
  36. brainstorm many ideas
  37. Test
  38. Imagine
  39. check it against goals
  40. Create

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