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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 77 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  3. 3.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  8. 8.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  11. 11.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) give up
  20. 20.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  25. 25.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  29. 29.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) make it better, retest
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) brainstorm many ideas
  35. 35.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) brainstorm many ideas

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. Imagine
  3. True
  4. Imagine
  5. Test
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. False
  9. Imagine
  10. fix the weak part
  11. False
  12. brainstorm many ideas
  13. Imagine
  14. Ask
  15. Plan
  16. Improve
  17. Plan
  18. try it out
  19. Improve
  20. Plan
  21. Plan
  22. Plan
  23. Imagine
  24. Imagine
  25. no, it repeats
  26. Test
  27. Test
  28. make a prototype
  29. True
  30. Improve
  31. check it against goals
  32. Imagine
  33. True
  34. list the materials
  35. False
  36. draw a labelled diagram
  37. Improve
  38. True
  39. False
  40. redesign after testing

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