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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 588 · 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 of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) make a prototype
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  3. 3.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) redesign after testing
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) build the model (c) follow the plan to build (d) think of wild ideas
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  14. 14.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) build the model (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  21. 21.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  26. 26.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  35. 35.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask

Answer key

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

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