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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 514 · 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) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  6. 6.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) measure its performance (d) ask who will use it
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  20. 20.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  26. 26.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) measure its performance (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  33. 33.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) draw a labelled diagram
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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