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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 740 · 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 Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  3. 3.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) list the materials
  8. 8.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) pick the build order (d) redesign after testing
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) measure its performance
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) measure its performance (d) try it out
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) build the model (d) try it out
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) measure its performance (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  24. 24.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) fix the weak part
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  30. 30.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  35. 35.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) brainstorm many ideas
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  38. 38.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan

Answer key

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

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