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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 224 · 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: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  7. 7.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) fix the weak part
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) check it against goals
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) fix the weak part (d) dream up possible fixes
  18. 18.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  21. 21.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) dream up possible fixes
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) build the model
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) define the problem (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  35. 35.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  37. 37.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) measure its performance (d) make it better, retest
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve

Answer key

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

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