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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 779 · 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.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) brainstorm many ideas
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  14. 14.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  19. 19.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) make a prototype (d) redesign after testing
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  24. 24.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  28. 28.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) make a prototype (c) find the limits (d) brainstorm many ideas
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  39. 39.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve

Answer key

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

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