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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 800 · 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: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) list the materials
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  12. 12.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  17. 17.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) redesign after testing
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  25. 25.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) pick the build order
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) fix the weak part (d) draw a labelled diagram
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  31. 31.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create

Answer key

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

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