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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 436 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  2. 2.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) list the materials
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) ask who will use it
  7. 7.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) check it against goals
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) define the problem (c) pick the build order (d) draw a labelled diagram
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  20. 20.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  21. 21.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  24. 24.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) list the materials
  34. 34.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) measure its performance
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  38. 38.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. True
  3. measure its performance
  4. Plan
  5. Test
  6. brainstorm many ideas
  7. no, it repeats
  8. Test
  9. Imagine
  10. Improve
  11. list the materials
  12. Ask
  13. try it out
  14. Improve
  15. Ask
  16. Improve
  17. Plan
  18. Imagine
  19. Create
  20. Improve
  21. False
  22. Test
  23. pick the build order
  24. True
  25. Create
  26. Imagine
  27. Ask
  28. Ask
  29. Imagine
  30. make it better, retest
  31. Plan
  32. False
  33. dream up possible fixes
  34. True
  35. True
  36. draw a labelled diagram
  37. ask who will use it
  38. False
  39. Plan
  40. False

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