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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 671 · 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.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  2. 2.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) ask who will use it (d) pick the build order
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) find the limits (c) check it against goals (d) brainstorm many ideas
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) fix the weak part (d) follow the plan to build
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  19. 19.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  27. 27.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) brainstorm many ideas
  31. 31.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  35. 35.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  40. 40.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. no, it repeats
  2. False
  3. Create
  4. Imagine
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. try it out
  8. Ask
  9. pick the build order
  10. Improve
  11. brainstorm many ideas
  12. Ask
  13. Create
  14. dream up possible fixes
  15. redesign after testing
  16. Create
  17. True
  18. Imagine
  19. Plan
  20. Imagine
  21. Imagine
  22. True
  23. Imagine
  24. Create
  25. Ask
  26. Improve
  27. False
  28. Ask
  29. Test
  30. find the limits
  31. True
  32. Test
  33. Imagine
  34. Imagine
  35. True
  36. Ask
  37. define the problem
  38. Plan
  39. Improve
  40. False

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