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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 112 · 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, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) dream up possible fixes
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  6. 6.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 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
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  11. 11.True or false: to make a prototype is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  22. 22.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  25. 25.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) try it out (d) make a prototype
  28. 28.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) think of wild ideas
  31. 31.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) find the limits (c) check it against goals (d) define the problem
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) follow the plan to build
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine

Answer key

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

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