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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 506 · 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 design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  2. 2.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) ask who will use it
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) make it better, retest
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  11. 11.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  13. 13.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) find the limits
  15. 15.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) list the materials (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  18. 18.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  22. 22.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  24. 24.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) list the materials (c) redesign after testing (d) define the problem
  31. 31.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) make a prototype (d) find the limits
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test

Answer key

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

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