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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 657 · 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.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  4. 4.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  6. 6.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) find the limits (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) pick the build order
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  14. 14.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) build the model (c) find the limits (d) measure its performance
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) find the limits
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) fix the weak part
  19. 19.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) make it better, retest (d) try it out
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  27. 27.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  29. 29.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  32. 32.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  34. 34.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  36. 36.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  39. 39.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan

Answer key

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

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