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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 717 · 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) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) pick the build order (d) try it out
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) find the limits (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  7. 7.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  9. 9.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) find the limits (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) redesign after testing
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  22. 22.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  25. 25.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) measure its performance (c) fix the weak part (d) find the limits
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  30. 30.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  36. 36.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) find the limits
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) pick the build order (c) redesign after testing (d) ask who will use it

Answer key

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

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