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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 840 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) follow the plan to build (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) measure its performance
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  9. 9.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  12. 12.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) measure its performance (c) pick the build order (d) make it better, retest
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  31. 31.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) make it better, retest (d) make a prototype
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) check it against goals
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  36. 36.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) check it against goals (d) draw a labelled diagram
  38. 38.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. dream up possible fixes
  3. think of wild ideas
  4. Imagine
  5. Imagine
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. Imagine
  9. False
  10. Create
  11. Improve
  12. True
  13. Create
  14. Plan
  15. Test
  16. Create
  17. Imagine
  18. Improve
  19. Create
  20. Plan
  21. measure its performance
  22. Improve
  23. pick the build order
  24. Create
  25. fix the weak part
  26. Plan
  27. no, it repeats
  28. Ask
  29. True
  30. Ask
  31. True
  32. Plan
  33. make a prototype
  34. check it against goals
  35. Plan
  36. True
  37. build the model
  38. True
  39. Ask
  40. Ask

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