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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 618 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  2. 2.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  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) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 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
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  14. 14.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) dream up possible fixes (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) fix the weak part
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) make a prototype (d) list the materials
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) measure its performance (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  21. 21.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) make a prototype (d) find the limits
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  33. 33.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  37. 37.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  40. 40.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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