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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 856 · 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) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  9. 9.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  11. 11.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  17. 17.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  19. 19.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) check it against goals (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  24. 24.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) think of wild ideas (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) list the materials
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  34. 34.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Ask
  3. Improve
  4. Improve
  5. Plan
  6. Ask
  7. Create
  8. Ask
  9. True
  10. Ask
  11. no, it repeats
  12. Test
  13. Ask
  14. Plan
  15. Improve
  16. Plan
  17. False
  18. Improve
  19. False
  20. Ask
  21. check it against goals
  22. Improve
  23. Plan
  24. False
  25. Ask
  26. follow the plan to build
  27. Imagine
  28. list the materials
  29. Ask
  30. Imagine
  31. Improve
  32. False
  33. measure its performance
  34. True
  35. False
  36. False
  37. Test
  38. Imagine
  39. True
  40. Ask

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