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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 690 · 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 on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  2. 2.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) pick the build order (c) ask who will use it (d) draw a labelled diagram
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) list the materials
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) fix the weak part (d) brainstorm many ideas
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  21. 21.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) draw a labelled diagram
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) check it against goals
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  34. 34.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  39. 39.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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