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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 235 · 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.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  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: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  5. 5.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  9. 9.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) try it out (c) dream up possible fixes (d) measure its performance
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) brainstorm many ideas
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) dream up possible fixes
  22. 22.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) check it against goals
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  30. 30.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) make it better, retest (d) list the materials
  34. 34.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make a prototype (d) pick the build order

Answer key

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

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