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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 76 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) pick the build order (d) dream up possible fixes
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  13. 13.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) dream up possible fixes
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  27. 27.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) fix the weak part
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  32. 32.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) find the limits

Answer key

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

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