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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 830 · 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) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  4. 4.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  10. 10.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) measure its performance (c) build the model (d) make it better, retest
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) make it better, retest
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  26. 26.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) redesign after testing
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  35. 35.True or false: to make a prototype is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  39. 39.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. think of wild ideas
  3. Ask
  4. True
  5. Imagine
  6. Plan
  7. Ask
  8. Ask
  9. define the problem
  10. True
  11. Imagine
  12. no, it repeats
  13. Improve
  14. follow the plan to build
  15. Ask
  16. Ask
  17. Plan
  18. True
  19. Improve
  20. ask who will use it
  21. Imagine
  22. measure its performance
  23. draw a labelled diagram
  24. Ask
  25. Test
  26. True
  27. redesign after testing
  28. Test
  29. Plan
  30. Ask
  31. Improve
  32. Plan
  33. Ask
  34. Plan
  35. False
  36. Imagine
  37. build the model
  38. Create
  39. False
  40. Ask

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