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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 728 · 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.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  2. 2.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) think of wild ideas
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  8. 8.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  10. 10.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) dream up possible fixes
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make a prototype (d) find the limits
  19. 19.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) make it better, retest
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  25. 25.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  36. 36.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) try it out (d) make it better, retest
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) fix the weak part
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve

Answer key

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

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