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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 655 · 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 Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) ask who will use it (c) measure its performance (d) brainstorm many ideas
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  11. 11.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) ask who will use it (c) dream up possible fixes (d) draw a labelled diagram
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  22. 22.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  29. 29.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  32. 32.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  33. 33.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) define the problem (d) think of wild ideas
  37. 37.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test

Answer key

  1. measure its performance
  2. Improve
  3. no, it repeats
  4. Create
  5. make it better, retest
  6. Ask
  7. Create
  8. Ask
  9. Plan
  10. define the problem
  11. True
  12. Plan
  13. Improve
  14. Imagine
  15. fix the weak part
  16. Ask
  17. False
  18. Test
  19. dream up possible fixes
  20. brainstorm many ideas
  21. Create
  22. False
  23. pick the build order
  24. Create
  25. Test
  26. Improve
  27. Improve
  28. Plan
  29. False
  30. True
  31. Plan
  32. Ask
  33. False
  34. True
  35. Ask
  36. think of wild ideas
  37. True
  38. Ask
  39. Imagine
  40. Test

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