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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 834 · 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) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) build the model
  3. 3.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) measure its performance (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) build the model
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) follow the plan to build
  8. 8.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) measure its performance
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  14. 14.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  19. 19.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) pick the build order (d) make a prototype
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  30. 30.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  33. 33.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  34. 34.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  40. 40.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. dream up possible fixes
  3. False
  4. draw a labelled diagram
  5. Ask
  6. check it against goals
  7. try it out
  8. True
  9. Plan
  10. think of wild ideas
  11. measure its performance
  12. Improve
  13. Plan
  14. True
  15. find the limits
  16. Improve
  17. Ask
  18. Test
  19. False
  20. Improve
  21. Improve
  22. Test
  23. ask who will use it
  24. pick the build order
  25. Improve
  26. True
  27. Create
  28. Improve
  29. Imagine
  30. True
  31. Plan
  32. Ask
  33. Ask
  34. False
  35. True
  36. True
  37. Imagine
  38. Plan
  39. Create
  40. False

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