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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 594 · 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.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  7. 7.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) think of wild ideas (d) list the materials
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  15. 15.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  19. 19.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  21. 21.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) follow the plan to build (c) ask who will use it (d) draw a labelled diagram
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  29. 29.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  32. 32.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) measure its performance (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  39. 39.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Plan
  3. Create
  4. Ask
  5. Improve
  6. list the materials
  7. True
  8. Ask
  9. Plan
  10. Imagine
  11. Plan
  12. Ask
  13. ask who will use it
  14. Plan
  15. True
  16. Improve
  17. Test
  18. Plan
  19. False
  20. Imagine
  21. True
  22. Imagine
  23. think of wild ideas
  24. try it out
  25. Create
  26. True
  27. follow the plan to build
  28. define the problem
  29. True
  30. redesign after testing
  31. Imagine
  32. Improve
  33. brainstorm many ideas
  34. Plan
  35. build the model
  36. measure its performance
  37. pick the build order
  38. Create
  39. no, it repeats
  40. Plan

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