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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 185 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  2. 2.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  5. 5.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) make a prototype
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  9. 9.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  15. 15.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  20. 20.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) measure its performance (d) draw a labelled diagram
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) measure its performance (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  35. 35.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  36. 36.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  39. 39.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test

Answer key

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

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