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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 873 · 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 of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) define the problem (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  3. 3.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  5. 5.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) make it better, retest
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  15. 15.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  23. 23.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  27. 27.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  30. 30.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  37. 37.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  40. 40.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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