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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 200 · 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 draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  4. 4.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) check it against goals
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  9. 9.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  11. 11.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  22. 22.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) follow the plan to build
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  25. 25.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  28. 28.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) measure its performance (d) make a prototype
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make a prototype
  39. 39.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. True
  5. Ask
  6. Improve
  7. fix the weak part
  8. Plan
  9. False
  10. Improve
  11. no, it repeats
  12. Plan
  13. dream up possible fixes
  14. Plan
  15. Improve
  16. Improve
  17. Create
  18. Imagine
  19. Plan
  20. True
  21. Plan
  22. False
  23. ask who will use it
  24. Create
  25. False
  26. define the problem
  27. Ask
  28. False
  29. False
  30. Ask
  31. Imagine
  32. try it out
  33. Create
  34. Ask
  35. draw a labelled diagram
  36. Ask
  37. Imagine
  38. brainstorm many ideas
  39. False
  40. find the limits

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