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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

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

Answer key

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

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