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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 488 · 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 Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) define the problem
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  3. 3.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  9. 9.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  11. 11.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  17. 17.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  22. 22.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) draw a labelled diagram
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  33. 33.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) think of wild ideas (d) measure its performance
  38. 38.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine

Answer key

  1. dream up possible fixes
  2. Test
  3. False
  4. Ask
  5. Test
  6. Plan
  7. Ask
  8. Create
  9. False
  10. Improve
  11. False
  12. True
  13. find the limits
  14. Ask
  15. Plan
  16. build the model
  17. True
  18. True
  19. True
  20. Ask
  21. brainstorm many ideas
  22. True
  23. False
  24. make it better, retest
  25. Imagine
  26. Improve
  27. Imagine
  28. Plan
  29. no, it repeats
  30. Improve
  31. define the problem
  32. Plan
  33. False
  34. Ask
  35. Create
  36. Plan
  37. redesign after testing
  38. True
  39. True
  40. Imagine

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