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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 420 · 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 check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) measure its performance (d) pick the build order
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  7. 7.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  11. 11.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  16. 16.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) think of wild ideas (c) make a prototype (d) measure its performance
  19. 19.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) measure its performance (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  21. 21.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) give up
  22. 22.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  27. 27.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  32. 32.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) dream up possible fixes (c) pick the build order (d) check it against goals
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) fix the weak part (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) list the materials (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Improve
  3. Imagine
  4. Plan
  5. redesign after testing
  6. Create
  7. False
  8. Ask
  9. Ask
  10. Imagine
  11. True
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. brainstorm many ideas
  15. Imagine
  16. False
  17. Imagine
  18. define the problem
  19. True
  20. ask who will use it
  21. Improve
  22. False
  23. Plan
  24. no, it repeats
  25. Ask
  26. think of wild ideas
  27. False
  28. Ask
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Create
  32. True
  33. dream up possible fixes
  34. Ask
  35. Ask
  36. fix the weak part
  37. list the materials
  38. Imagine
  39. Ask
  40. Test

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