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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 601 · 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 find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) measure its performance (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) make a prototype (d) brainstorm many ideas
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) measure its performance
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  12. 12.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) measure its performance
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) ask who will use it (d) make it better, retest
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  26. 26.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  33. 33.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make a prototype
  36. 36.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  39. 39.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. False
  2. define the problem
  3. Ask
  4. Ask
  5. Imagine
  6. Plan
  7. redesign after testing
  8. Ask
  9. ask who will use it
  10. Create
  11. no, it repeats
  12. False
  13. Test
  14. Plan
  15. Ask
  16. Plan
  17. pick the build order
  18. Create
  19. Plan
  20. Improve
  21. make it better, retest
  22. Improve
  23. Ask
  24. Improve
  25. Improve
  26. True
  27. True
  28. Ask
  29. True
  30. dream up possible fixes
  31. fix the weak part
  32. Ask
  33. False
  34. Imagine
  35. try it out
  36. True
  37. Improve
  38. Imagine
  39. False
  40. True

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