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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 176 · 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.🔄 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
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  11. 11.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  15. 15.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) redesign after testing
  20. 20.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  33. 33.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  36. 36.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create

Answer key

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

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