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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 186 · 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 dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  2. 2.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) check it against goals
  4. 4.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  6. 6.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  8. 8.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  13. 13.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  19. 19.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 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
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  24. 24.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) find the limits (c) measure its performance (d) redesign after testing
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  30. 30.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) pick the build order (d) make a prototype
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make a prototype (c) fix the weak part (d) redesign after testing
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  38. 38.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  40. 40.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. False
  3. follow the plan to build
  4. True
  5. pick the build order
  6. True
  7. Ask
  8. True
  9. Plan
  10. Improve
  11. brainstorm many ideas
  12. Imagine
  13. False
  14. False
  15. Test
  16. Create
  17. Ask
  18. Ask
  19. False
  20. True
  21. True
  22. no, it repeats
  23. Imagine
  24. True
  25. build the model
  26. Create
  27. Improve
  28. True
  29. define the problem
  30. Improve
  31. Imagine
  32. False
  33. False
  34. Test
  35. ask who will use it
  36. dream up possible fixes
  37. make it better, retest
  38. False
  39. Plan
  40. False

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