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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 762 · 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 “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) measure its performance
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  8. 8.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) ask who will use it (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) check it against goals (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) follow the plan to build (d) list the materials
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  24. 24.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) ask who will use it (c) measure its performance (d) pick the build order
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) measure its performance

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. Plan
  5. Improve
  6. dream up possible fixes
  7. Improve
  8. True
  9. Plan
  10. fix the weak part
  11. Test
  12. think of wild ideas
  13. Create
  14. check it against goals
  15. Plan
  16. follow the plan to build
  17. Imagine
  18. Plan
  19. find the limits
  20. Create
  21. Create
  22. ask who will use it
  23. brainstorm many ideas
  24. False
  25. Imagine
  26. Plan
  27. True
  28. Ask
  29. Imagine
  30. Ask
  31. True
  32. Create
  33. True
  34. True
  35. Plan
  36. Plan
  37. Imagine
  38. Improve
  39. pick the build order
  40. measure its performance

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