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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 90 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  5. 5.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) pick the build order (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  9. 9.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) measure its performance
  13. 13.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) measure its performance
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  21. 21.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  23. 23.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  26. 26.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) make a prototype
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) make it better, retest (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) list the materials (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  36. 36.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) build the model (c) measure its performance (d) brainstorm many ideas
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Improve
  3. Ask
  4. Plan
  5. True
  6. redesign after testing
  7. Improve
  8. pick the build order
  9. True
  10. False
  11. Ask
  12. measure its performance
  13. False
  14. brainstorm many ideas
  15. Ask
  16. no, it repeats
  17. Test
  18. find the limits
  19. Create
  20. Create
  21. Plan
  22. Imagine
  23. False
  24. Create
  25. Create
  26. True
  27. Ask
  28. False
  29. dream up possible fixes
  30. Create
  31. Test
  32. Ask
  33. make it better, retest
  34. Create
  35. list the materials
  36. True
  37. Test
  38. build the model
  39. Imagine
  40. False

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