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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 80 · 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 Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  5. 5.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) fix the weak part
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) ask who will use it
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) find the limits (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 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
  14. 14.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) follow the plan to build
  31. 31.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  36. 36.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  39. 39.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. fix the weak part
  2. dream up possible fixes
  3. Imagine
  4. Plan
  5. True
  6. Improve
  7. Plan
  8. Plan
  9. build the model
  10. try it out
  11. measure its performance
  12. Ask
  13. no, it repeats
  14. False
  15. Improve
  16. Improve
  17. Ask
  18. True
  19. Ask
  20. False
  21. make a prototype
  22. Ask
  23. Plan
  24. Test
  25. Create
  26. Ask
  27. Plan
  28. find the limits
  29. Plan
  30. draw a labelled diagram
  31. False
  32. Create
  33. Imagine
  34. Imagine
  35. Create
  36. True
  37. Ask
  38. Create
  39. False
  40. Ask

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