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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 729 · 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, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) make it better, retest
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) think of wild ideas
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  11. 11.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  13. 13.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) list the materials
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) make it better, retest
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) pick the build order (c) check it against goals (d) dream up possible fixes
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) redesign after testing (d) fix the weak part
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. brainstorm many ideas
  3. Ask
  4. find the limits
  5. Test
  6. Test
  7. Plan
  8. Create
  9. Ask
  10. Plan
  11. True
  12. Improve
  13. False
  14. Imagine
  15. pick the build order
  16. Ask
  17. Plan
  18. Ask
  19. Ask
  20. Improve
  21. Test
  22. measure its performance
  23. make it better, retest
  24. check it against goals
  25. define the problem
  26. Create
  27. Imagine
  28. Improve
  29. False
  30. False
  31. False
  32. False
  33. build the model
  34. Imagine
  35. Imagine
  36. try it out
  37. ask who will use it
  38. Ask
  39. False
  40. Test

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