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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 211 · 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 dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) dream up possible fixes
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) follow the plan to build (c) list the materials (d) ask who will use it
  8. 8.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) follow the plan to build (c) redesign after testing (d) fix the weak part
  18. 18.🔄 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
  19. 19.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) fix the weak part (c) find the limits (d) define the problem
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) list the materials (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) dream up possible fixes
  26. 26.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) pick the build order (d) make it better, retest
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  30. 30.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to make a prototype is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) think of wild ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  39. 39.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve

Answer key

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

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