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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 119 · 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 comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  5. 5.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  8. 8.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) make a prototype
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  14. 14.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) make it better, retest (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) redesign after testing
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) fix the weak part (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) make it better, retest
  21. 21.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  26. 26.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) ask who will use it (c) list the materials (d) fix the weak part
  39. 39.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build

Answer key

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

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