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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 985 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) try it out
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) measure its performance (d) define the problem
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) ask who will use it
  15. 15.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  19. 19.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) check it against goals (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  25. 25.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  34. 34.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) dream up possible fixes
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  40. 40.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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