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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 920 · 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.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) try it out
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  10. 10.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) build the model
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) follow the plan to build (d) ask who will use it
  16. 16.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) fix the weak part (c) dream up possible fixes (d) check it against goals
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  26. 26.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) make it better, retest (d) define the problem
  31. 31.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  35. 35.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) try it out
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) define the problem (c) check it against goals (d) measure its performance

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Ask
  3. Imagine
  4. brainstorm many ideas
  5. Improve
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. Plan
  9. Ask
  10. False
  11. True
  12. draw a labelled diagram
  13. Imagine
  14. Plan
  15. try it out
  16. True
  17. Plan
  18. Improve
  19. no, it repeats
  20. dream up possible fixes
  21. Ask
  22. Ask
  23. build the model
  24. Plan
  25. Plan
  26. True
  27. False
  28. False
  29. Improve
  30. follow the plan to build
  31. False
  32. Create
  33. Imagine
  34. find the limits
  35. False
  36. Create
  37. Ask
  38. list the materials
  39. Ask
  40. make a prototype

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