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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 145 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) measure its performance (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) redesign after testing
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) draw a labelled diagram
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) dream up possible fixes (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  15. 15.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  19. 19.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) pick the build order (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) follow the plan to build (d) try it out
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  28. 28.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  38. 38.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. fix the weak part
  3. Ask
  4. Ask
  5. False
  6. think of wild ideas
  7. Imagine
  8. Create
  9. Ask
  10. Plan
  11. Imagine
  12. brainstorm many ideas
  13. build the model
  14. redesign after testing
  15. True
  16. Ask
  17. Improve
  18. Improve
  19. True
  20. pick the build order
  21. try it out
  22. Imagine
  23. Create
  24. no, it repeats
  25. Test
  26. Plan
  27. Plan
  28. False
  29. True
  30. Ask
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. False
  35. define the problem
  36. Test
  37. Create
  38. False
  39. Create
  40. Plan

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