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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 100 · 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 is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) pick the build order
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  9. 9.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  15. 15.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  17. 17.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  20. 20.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) find the limits (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  33. 33.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) make it better, retest
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. Improve
  4. Ask
  5. pick the build order
  6. make it better, retest
  7. Ask
  8. ask who will use it
  9. True
  10. Plan
  11. Imagine
  12. Improve
  13. Ask
  14. Create
  15. False
  16. find the limits
  17. no, it repeats
  18. Plan
  19. Create
  20. False
  21. Plan
  22. Imagine
  23. Create
  24. Imagine
  25. try it out
  26. Ask
  27. True
  28. True
  29. False
  30. Test
  31. Plan
  32. redesign after testing
  33. False
  34. True
  35. False
  36. Test
  37. define the problem
  38. Create
  39. Imagine
  40. Plan

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