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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 827 · 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 think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  3. 3.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  9. 9.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make it better, retest (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  22. 22.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make a prototype (c) follow the plan to build (d) ask who will use it
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) measure its performance (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  26. 26.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) make it better, retest (c) think of wild ideas (d) list the materials
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  32. 32.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) brainstorm many ideas
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  36. 36.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  39. 39.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create

Answer key

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

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