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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 631 · 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 design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) follow the plan to build (c) fix the weak part (d) make it better, retest
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) redesign after testing
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  17. 17.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  19. 19.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) pick the build order
  28. 28.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  33. 33.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  34. 34.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  37. 37.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  39. 39.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order

Answer key

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

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