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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 855 · 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 think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) try it out (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) fix the weak part (d) find the limits
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  17. 17.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  25. 25.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  30. 30.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  38. 38.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) fix the weak part (d) find the limits

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. try it out
  3. Create
  4. Plan
  5. Ask
  6. fix the weak part
  7. Plan
  8. Improve
  9. Create
  10. Ask
  11. False
  12. Ask
  13. redesign after testing
  14. Ask
  15. Imagine
  16. no, it repeats
  17. False
  18. True
  19. Test
  20. Ask
  21. Ask
  22. Plan
  23. Imagine
  24. Improve
  25. True
  26. True
  27. Imagine
  28. Test
  29. Plan
  30. Plan
  31. Imagine
  32. False
  33. False
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Create
  37. Imagine
  38. False
  39. False
  40. check it against goals

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