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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 66 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  13. 13.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  14. 14.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  18. 18.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) define the problem (c) pick the build order (d) think of wild ideas
  20. 20.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) build the model
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  23. 23.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) measure its performance (d) dream up possible fixes
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) pick the build order (c) redesign after testing (d) measure its performance
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) fix the weak part (c) think of wild ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  35. 35.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) fix the weak part
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) check it against goals (d) make a prototype
  40. 40.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. no, it repeats
  3. find the limits
  4. Create
  5. Improve
  6. Improve
  7. Create
  8. Improve
  9. Ask
  10. Test
  11. Create
  12. Imagine
  13. Ask
  14. True
  15. Ask
  16. Imagine
  17. Imagine
  18. True
  19. define the problem
  20. True
  21. check it against goals
  22. Imagine
  23. True
  24. Test
  25. try it out
  26. Plan
  27. Ask
  28. pick the build order
  29. think of wild ideas
  30. Imagine
  31. fix the weak part
  32. Plan
  33. False
  34. Ask
  35. True
  36. Create
  37. Test
  38. draw a labelled diagram
  39. brainstorm many ideas
  40. False

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