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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 841 · 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 design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  9. 9.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) try it out (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  19. 19.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  22. 22.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) try it out
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  28. 28.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  32. 32.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  35. 35.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Create
  3. make it better, retest
  4. Ask
  5. Plan
  6. Ask
  7. ask who will use it
  8. Ask
  9. False
  10. Improve
  11. fix the weak part
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. Ask
  15. draw a labelled diagram
  16. Ask
  17. False
  18. brainstorm many ideas
  19. False
  20. Ask
  21. try it out
  22. Plan
  23. Improve
  24. no, it repeats
  25. Create
  26. think of wild ideas
  27. Ask
  28. False
  29. Ask
  30. Imagine
  31. Test
  32. Ask
  33. False
  34. Plan
  35. True
  36. Imagine
  37. Ask
  38. Improve
  39. Test
  40. True

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