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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 691 · 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 define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) redesign after testing (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  14. 14.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  16. 16.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  19. 19.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  26. 26.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  28. 28.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  30. 30.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. Plan
  4. no, it repeats
  5. follow the plan to build
  6. Imagine
  7. Imagine
  8. think of wild ideas
  9. measure its performance
  10. Create
  11. Plan
  12. Test
  13. make a prototype
  14. Improve
  15. Ask
  16. False
  17. Improve
  18. Imagine
  19. Ask
  20. Create
  21. Create
  22. Plan
  23. Imagine
  24. Ask
  25. Test
  26. False
  27. Improve
  28. True
  29. fix the weak part
  30. True
  31. True
  32. Improve
  33. Improve
  34. Ask
  35. False
  36. False
  37. Plan
  38. False
  39. False
  40. Ask

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