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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 922 · 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 ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 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
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  4. 4.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make a prototype
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) measure its performance
  14. 14.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) ask who will use it (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  17. 17.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  20. 20.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  31. 31.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) build the model
  35. 35.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) list the materials (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve

Answer key

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

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