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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 297 · 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 check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) draw a labelled diagram
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) find the limits (d) pick the build order
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  14. 14.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) list the materials (d) ask who will use it
  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 Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  32. 32.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  33. 33.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine

Answer key

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

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