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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 792 · 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 is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) define the problem
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) find the limits (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) check it against goals
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) dream up possible fixes (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  20. 20.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) dream up possible fixes
  27. 27.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  31. 31.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  37. 37.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  40. 40.True or false: to measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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