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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 852 · 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 find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) follow the plan to build (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) define the problem
  11. 11.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) make it better, retest (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) measure its performance (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) fix the weak part
  22. 22.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  25. 25.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  30. 30.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  32. 32.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  36. 36.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  40. 40.🔄 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

Answer key

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

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