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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 824 · 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 design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) list the materials (c) fix the weak part (d) think of wild ideas
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) think of wild ideas (d) dream up possible fixes
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  17. 17.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  31. 31.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  35. 35.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. Test
  3. False
  4. Plan
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. Improve
  8. Ask
  9. Improve
  10. fix the weak part
  11. define the problem
  12. Ask
  13. Ask
  14. Imagine
  15. Plan
  16. Improve
  17. False
  18. Imagine
  19. Imagine
  20. Plan
  21. Ask
  22. Plan
  23. Ask
  24. Improve
  25. draw a labelled diagram
  26. Plan
  27. no, it repeats
  28. Test
  29. list the materials
  30. Test
  31. True
  32. Test
  33. try it out
  34. build the model
  35. False
  36. Create
  37. Ask
  38. Ask
  39. Ask
  40. Imagine

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