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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 868 · 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 define the problem? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) ask who will use it (c) measure its performance (d) pick the build order
  4. 4.🔄 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
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  9. 9.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  11. 11.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) check it against goals
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) check it against goals
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) try it out
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  34. 34.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create

Answer key

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

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