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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 513 · 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 check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  4. 4.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) measure its performance
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  13. 13.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  15. 15.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  19. 19.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  22. 22.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) draw a labelled diagram
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) redesign after testing
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) measure its performance (d) make a prototype
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  34. 34.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) follow the plan to build
  40. 40.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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