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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 32 · 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 of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  6. 6.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  21. 21.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) check it against goals
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  26. 26.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) check it against goals
  30. 30.🔄 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
  31. 31.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  36. 36.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  39. 39.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine

Answer key

  1. make it better, retest
  2. Imagine
  3. Improve
  4. Test
  5. Ask
  6. True
  7. redesign after testing
  8. Plan
  9. Improve
  10. make a prototype
  11. Improve
  12. Plan
  13. Create
  14. Imagine
  15. Plan
  16. Plan
  17. Create
  18. Test
  19. Ask
  20. Imagine
  21. True
  22. True
  23. define the problem
  24. Test
  25. try it out
  26. True
  27. Plan
  28. Create
  29. check it against goals
  30. no, it repeats
  31. False
  32. True
  33. Test
  34. Ask
  35. Ask
  36. False
  37. Imagine
  38. Test
  39. False
  40. Imagine

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