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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 411 · 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 build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔄 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
  8. 8.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  10. 10.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) think of wild ideas
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) try it out (d) measure its performance
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) draw a labelled diagram
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) redesign after testing
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  19. 19.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make a prototype (d) make it better, retest
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) think of wild ideas (d) pick the build order
  26. 26.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  30. 30.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  33. 33.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Create
  3. Improve
  4. Imagine
  5. pick the build order
  6. Plan
  7. no, it repeats
  8. True
  9. Improve
  10. False
  11. find the limits
  12. make a prototype
  13. Plan
  14. fix the weak part
  15. measure its performance
  16. Ask
  17. Plan
  18. Improve
  19. False
  20. Imagine
  21. Ask
  22. Create
  23. make it better, retest
  24. Improve
  25. think of wild ideas
  26. False
  27. Ask
  28. Ask
  29. Plan
  30. False
  31. Ask
  32. Imagine
  33. False
  34. Test
  35. Imagine
  36. Plan
  37. Ask
  38. Improve
  39. Imagine
  40. Imagine

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