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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 57 · 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 make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make a prototype (d) check it against goals
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) find the limits
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) fix the weak part (c) measure its performance (d) think of wild ideas
  9. 9.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  12. 12.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  14. 14.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) draw a labelled diagram
  16. 16.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  19. 19.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) check it against goals (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) draw a labelled diagram
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  26. 26.🔄 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
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  28. 28.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  31. 31.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  38. 38.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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