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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 688 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  17. 17.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) measure its performance (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) follow the plan to build (d) make a prototype
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  30. 30.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test

Answer key

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

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