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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 388 · 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 brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 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
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) try it out
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) fix the weak part (c) pick the build order (d) find the limits
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  8. 8.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) try it out
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  21. 21.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) pick the build order (c) make a prototype (d) list the materials
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) fix the weak part
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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