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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 990 · 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 Test step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) pick the build order
  11. 11.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) fix the weak part (d) think of wild ideas
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  16. 16.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  19. 19.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) make it better, retest (d) check it against goals
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  32. 32.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create

Answer key

  1. try it out
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. Plan
  5. Create
  6. Improve
  7. Imagine
  8. Imagine
  9. Ask
  10. brainstorm many ideas
  11. False
  12. True
  13. ask who will use it
  14. Ask
  15. Test
  16. False
  17. True
  18. Plan
  19. False
  20. Test
  21. Ask
  22. think of wild ideas
  23. Improve
  24. make it better, retest
  25. Ask
  26. Create
  27. no, it repeats
  28. Ask
  29. Improve
  30. Plan
  31. Test
  32. True
  33. False
  34. True
  35. True
  36. Improve
  37. False
  38. True
  39. Imagine
  40. Plan

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