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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 328 · 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.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  6. 6.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  9. 9.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  12. 12.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) list the materials
  14. 14.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  18. 18.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make a prototype
  25. 25.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  28. 28.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) build the model (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) define the problem (c) check it against goals (d) make it better, retest
  37. 37.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) find the limits (c) list the materials (d) brainstorm many ideas
  40. 40.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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