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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 978 · 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) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  3. 3.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  27. 27.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  31. 31.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) think of wild ideas
  40. 40.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. try it out
  3. False
  4. Imagine
  5. Test
  6. Improve
  7. ask who will use it
  8. Ask
  9. Test
  10. Ask
  11. Improve
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. Improve
  15. Ask
  16. Plan
  17. Plan
  18. Plan
  19. Create
  20. define the problem
  21. Test
  22. follow the plan to build
  23. Improve
  24. Imagine
  25. Imagine
  26. pick the build order
  27. False
  28. Test
  29. Ask
  30. Ask
  31. False
  32. Imagine
  33. False
  34. True
  35. False
  36. list the materials
  37. build the model
  38. Create
  39. fix the weak part
  40. True

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