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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 512 · 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 Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  2. 2.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  6. 6.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) make it better, retest (d) check it against goals
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  11. 11.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  16. 16.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) try it out
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  24. 24.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  28. 28.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  29. 29.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  32. 32.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  35. 35.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. draw a labelled diagram
  2. True
  3. no, it repeats
  4. Test
  5. Ask
  6. Plan
  7. find the limits
  8. Plan
  9. ask who will use it
  10. Test
  11. False
  12. False
  13. Imagine
  14. Improve
  15. Ask
  16. False
  17. Ask
  18. False
  19. True
  20. try it out
  21. Plan
  22. Create
  23. Improve
  24. True
  25. Test
  26. Improve
  27. Test
  28. Ask
  29. True
  30. Imagine
  31. Ask
  32. False
  33. Ask
  34. Improve
  35. False
  36. True
  37. Ask
  38. Imagine
  39. Imagine
  40. False

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