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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 395 · 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 Create step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) build the model
  2. 2.True or false: to make a prototype is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  17. 17.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  21. 21.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  23. 23.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  25. 25.🔄 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
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  28. 28.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) pick the build order (d) dream up possible fixes
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) make it better, retest
  40. 40.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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