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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 831 · 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 pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  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, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) list the materials (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  7. 7.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  17. 17.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  20. 20.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) check it against goals (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) measure its performance (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  27. 27.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) redesign after testing (d) try it out
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  31. 31.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) check it against goals
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance

Answer key

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

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