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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 997 · 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) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 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
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) list the materials
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  13. 13.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  21. 21.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) measure its performance
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) try it out
  25. 25.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) pick the build order
  28. 28.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  30. 30.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  32. 32.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) list the materials (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) redesign after testing (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Imagine
  3. Improve
  4. Improve
  5. Plan
  6. Ask
  7. no, it repeats
  8. Ask
  9. Imagine
  10. brainstorm many ideas
  11. Test
  12. draw a labelled diagram
  13. False
  14. follow the plan to build
  15. find the limits
  16. Imagine
  17. Ask
  18. Imagine
  19. Test
  20. Ask
  21. False
  22. ask who will use it
  23. Create
  24. define the problem
  25. False
  26. Improve
  27. check it against goals
  28. True
  29. Plan
  30. False
  31. Create
  32. False
  33. list the materials
  34. build the model
  35. redesign after testing
  36. Test
  37. False
  38. Plan
  39. Ask
  40. Plan

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