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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 532 · 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.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) draw a labelled diagram
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) draw a labelled diagram
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) pick the build order
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  11. 11.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  18. 18.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  21. 21.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  33. 33.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  37. 37.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. no, it repeats
  2. define the problem
  3. Imagine
  4. measure its performance
  5. Ask
  6. False
  7. draw a labelled diagram
  8. check it against goals
  9. Improve
  10. Plan
  11. Ask
  12. Create
  13. Ask
  14. Ask
  15. Ask
  16. Test
  17. dream up possible fixes
  18. True
  19. Plan
  20. follow the plan to build
  21. True
  22. Improve
  23. Ask
  24. Test
  25. Test
  26. Test
  27. Improve
  28. False
  29. Create
  30. Imagine
  31. True
  32. build the model
  33. False
  34. False
  35. Create
  36. Ask
  37. True
  38. Plan
  39. brainstorm many ideas
  40. Improve

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