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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 970 · 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  4. 4.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) list the materials (d) check it against goals
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) make it better, retest (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  12. 12.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  15. 15.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) think of wild ideas
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  19. 19.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  26. 26.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) think of wild ideas
  33. 33.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) measure its performance (c) fix the weak part (d) list the materials
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  38. 38.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  40. 40.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Improve
  3. Ask
  4. False
  5. Improve
  6. check it against goals
  7. Create
  8. Test
  9. Test
  10. define the problem
  11. Ask
  12. False
  13. Plan
  14. dream up possible fixes
  15. True
  16. Test
  17. build the model
  18. Ask
  19. Plan
  20. Plan
  21. Ask
  22. Ask
  23. False
  24. False
  25. Imagine
  26. False
  27. no, it repeats
  28. Improve
  29. Ask
  30. Test
  31. Plan
  32. ask who will use it
  33. True
  34. fix the weak part
  35. Ask
  36. Imagine
  37. Plan
  38. True
  39. think of wild ideas
  40. False

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