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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 58 · 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.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  7. 7.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  10. 10.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) define the problem
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) list the materials (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  21. 21.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  25. 25.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  28. 28.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  36. 36.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) ask who will use it (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Ask
  3. brainstorm many ideas
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. no, it repeats
  7. True
  8. Test
  9. Imagine
  10. False
  11. define the problem
  12. Ask
  13. Create
  14. pick the build order
  15. Imagine
  16. fix the weak part
  17. Create
  18. Imagine
  19. Improve
  20. Improve
  21. False
  22. Plan
  23. think of wild ideas
  24. redesign after testing
  25. False
  26. Improve
  27. Plan
  28. Improve
  29. True
  30. False
  31. Plan
  32. False
  33. True
  34. Create
  35. Test
  36. True
  37. True
  38. Imagine
  39. Imagine
  40. draw a labelled diagram

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