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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 943 · 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 comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  3. 3.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) find the limits (d) check it against goals
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) ask who will use it (c) list the materials (d) pick the build order
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  15. 15.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) measure its performance
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  21. 21.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  23. 23.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Improve
  3. True
  4. Test
  5. Test
  6. True
  7. Create
  8. Imagine
  9. build the model
  10. Plan
  11. check it against goals
  12. think of wild ideas
  13. list the materials
  14. Test
  15. False
  16. measure its performance
  17. Create
  18. False
  19. Plan
  20. Ask
  21. True
  22. no, it repeats
  23. False
  24. Improve
  25. Imagine
  26. Imagine
  27. False
  28. Ask
  29. True
  30. brainstorm many ideas
  31. Ask
  32. Ask
  33. Plan
  34. True
  35. Ask
  36. Improve
  37. Ask
  38. Ask
  39. Imagine
  40. draw a labelled diagram

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