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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 120 · 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 “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 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
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  10. 10.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) ask who will use it (c) try it out (d) list the materials
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  16. 16.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) measure its performance
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  22. 22.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  23. 23.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make a prototype (c) measure its performance (d) list the materials
  25. 25.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) ask who will use it
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) check it against goals
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) ask who will use it (c) find the limits (d) list the materials

Answer key

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

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