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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 95 · 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 brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make a prototype (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) pick the build order
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  7. 7.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  10. 10.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) check it against goals
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  28. 28.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  33. 33.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) make a prototype (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Imagine
  3. dream up possible fixes
  4. Ask
  5. pick the build order
  6. Test
  7. False
  8. Improve
  9. Imagine
  10. True
  11. Ask
  12. Ask
  13. find the limits
  14. Improve
  15. Plan
  16. check it against goals
  17. Create
  18. try it out
  19. Imagine
  20. draw a labelled diagram
  21. brainstorm many ideas
  22. Plan
  23. define the problem
  24. Test
  25. Improve
  26. Ask
  27. Plan
  28. False
  29. True
  30. False
  31. Imagine
  32. make a prototype
  33. False
  34. Plan
  35. list the materials
  36. Ask
  37. Improve
  38. Plan
  39. True
  40. True

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