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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 981 · 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: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) build the model (d) try it out
  4. 4.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) measure its performance (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  6. 6.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  8. 8.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  21. 21.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) pick the build order (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) define the problem (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) pick the build order (c) check it against goals (d) make it better, retest
  30. 30.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) follow the plan to build (d) think of wild ideas
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  36. 36.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine

Answer key

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

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