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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 986 · 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 of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  8. 8.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) redesign after testing
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  13. 13.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) fix the weak part (d) measure its performance
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  24. 24.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  26. 26.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) brainstorm many ideas
  35. 35.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask

Answer key

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

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