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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 836 · 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.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  2. 2.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  8. 8.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  18. 18.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) think of wild ideas (c) measure its performance (d) list the materials
  25. 25.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) think of wild ideas
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) list the materials
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  36. 36.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) ask who will use it (d) make it better, retest
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) think of wild ideas (c) pick the build order (d) make it better, retest
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. no, it repeats
  2. True
  3. Imagine
  4. Test
  5. Ask
  6. Imagine
  7. Improve
  8. True
  9. Ask
  10. Create
  11. Improve
  12. Imagine
  13. define the problem
  14. Imagine
  15. Imagine
  16. Test
  17. Improve
  18. False
  19. redesign after testing
  20. Ask
  21. Test
  22. Test
  23. True
  24. measure its performance
  25. False
  26. False
  27. Plan
  28. True
  29. True
  30. False
  31. Plan
  32. False
  33. think of wild ideas
  34. fix the weak part
  35. Ask
  36. False
  37. brainstorm many ideas
  38. build the model
  39. try it out
  40. Ask

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