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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 714 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  2. 2.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) draw a labelled diagram
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  7. 7.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) list the materials
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) redesign after testing (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔄 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
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) try it out
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) try it out
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) redesign after testing (c) think of wild ideas (d) try it out
  34. 34.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) make it better, retest
  36. 36.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) list the materials
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  39. 39.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. False
  3. Improve
  4. draw a labelled diagram
  5. Test
  6. try it out
  7. False
  8. Ask
  9. Ask
  10. Ask
  11. Imagine
  12. build the model
  13. Plan
  14. Ask
  15. Plan
  16. Ask
  17. Improve
  18. Ask
  19. Plan
  20. Create
  21. Test
  22. Imagine
  23. brainstorm many ideas
  24. Improve
  25. Plan
  26. no, it repeats
  27. Imagine
  28. Create
  29. Improve
  30. make it better, retest
  31. fix the weak part
  32. find the limits
  33. redesign after testing
  34. False
  35. define the problem
  36. False
  37. dream up possible fixes
  38. Plan
  39. True
  40. Plan

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