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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 104 · 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.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) check it against goals
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) brainstorm many ideas
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  14. 14.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  15. 15.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) draw a labelled diagram
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) make a prototype (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  27. 27.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) make it better, retest
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Ask
  3. Plan
  4. pick the build order
  5. Ask
  6. Improve
  7. Plan
  8. Create
  9. Ask
  10. find the limits
  11. Test
  12. Improve
  13. Imagine
  14. Improve
  15. False
  16. check it against goals
  17. Imagine
  18. False
  19. Plan
  20. draw a labelled diagram
  21. Plan
  22. Plan
  23. Ask
  24. define the problem
  25. Create
  26. try it out
  27. True
  28. make it better, retest
  29. Imagine
  30. Imagine
  31. no, it repeats
  32. True
  33. Ask
  34. False
  35. Improve
  36. Ask
  37. Imagine
  38. Create
  39. Create
  40. False

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