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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 64 · 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 of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  3. 3.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  9. 9.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  16. 16.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) try it out (d) check it against goals
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) think of wild ideas
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) list the materials
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  24. 24.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  28. 28.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  31. 31.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make a prototype (d) brainstorm many ideas
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) draw a labelled diagram
  39. 39.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make it better, retest (c) follow the plan to build (d) think of wild ideas

Answer key

  1. pick the build order
  2. Improve
  3. False
  4. Test
  5. Ask
  6. Test
  7. Ask
  8. check it against goals
  9. False
  10. Test
  11. Improve
  12. follow the plan to build
  13. Improve
  14. Plan
  15. Create
  16. False
  17. build the model
  18. Test
  19. list the materials
  20. Improve
  21. Imagine
  22. brainstorm many ideas
  23. Create
  24. False
  25. Plan
  26. Imagine
  27. Create
  28. True
  29. False
  30. Plan
  31. False
  32. no, it repeats
  33. Create
  34. True
  35. Imagine
  36. Ask
  37. try it out
  38. draw a labelled diagram
  39. False
  40. think of wild ideas

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