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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 637 · 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 draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  4. 4.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) check it against goals (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  12. 12.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  14. 14.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make a prototype (d) fix the weak part
  17. 17.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  18. 18.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) ask who will use it (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  24. 24.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  30. 30.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make a prototype (c) follow the plan to build (d) find the limits
  36. 36.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  39. 39.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) measure its performance

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Test
  3. Imagine
  4. False
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. make a prototype
  9. Plan
  10. Plan
  11. Imagine
  12. True
  13. Create
  14. Improve
  15. Ask
  16. dream up possible fixes
  17. no, it repeats
  18. True
  19. list the materials
  20. Ask
  21. Ask
  22. False
  23. build the model
  24. False
  25. Imagine
  26. Imagine
  27. False
  28. Imagine
  29. Create
  30. False
  31. follow the plan to build
  32. Create
  33. False
  34. Create
  35. find the limits
  36. True
  37. True
  38. pick the build order
  39. False
  40. measure its performance

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