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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 696 · 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 design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) define the problem
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) follow the plan to build (d) measure its performance
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  16. 16.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  24. 24.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) pick the build order
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) list the materials (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  30. 30.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  37. 37.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 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
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. True
  3. Improve
  4. Improve
  5. Ask
  6. True
  7. Ask
  8. draw a labelled diagram
  9. define the problem
  10. Plan
  11. Ask
  12. brainstorm many ideas
  13. Ask
  14. Ask
  15. Test
  16. True
  17. False
  18. True
  19. Imagine
  20. Test
  21. Improve
  22. False
  23. Imagine
  24. True
  25. Plan
  26. ask who will use it
  27. Improve
  28. Test
  29. list the materials
  30. False
  31. Improve
  32. dream up possible fixes
  33. Create
  34. Imagine
  35. pick the build order
  36. Create
  37. False
  38. no, it repeats
  39. Ask
  40. make it better, retest

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