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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 197 · 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 brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  3. 3.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  7. 7.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) try it out (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  9. 9.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) redesign after testing
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) check it against goals
  15. 15.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) list the materials (d) draw a labelled diagram
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  22. 22.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) think of wild ideas
  28. 28.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) ask who will use it
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) ask who will use it (d) find the limits
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  38. 38.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan

Answer key

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

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