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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 208 · 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 design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) make a prototype
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) brainstorm many ideas
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) ask who will use it
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  17. 17.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) check it against goals (d) brainstorm many ideas
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  28. 28.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  38. 38.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Plan
  3. Test
  4. no, it repeats
  5. Imagine
  6. Improve
  7. think of wild ideas
  8. Ask
  9. Ask
  10. Improve
  11. brainstorm many ideas
  12. Create
  13. Imagine
  14. make a prototype
  15. Imagine
  16. find the limits
  17. False
  18. Create
  19. Plan
  20. list the materials
  21. Ask
  22. check it against goals
  23. Improve
  24. Imagine
  25. Test
  26. Imagine
  27. Create
  28. True
  29. False
  30. Plan
  31. Imagine
  32. Improve
  33. True
  34. True
  35. redesign after testing
  36. Ask
  37. Test
  38. True
  39. False
  40. follow the plan to build

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