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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

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

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. True
  3. Improve
  4. Improve
  5. Imagine
  6. Improve
  7. True
  8. make it better, retest
  9. True
  10. find the limits
  11. True
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. Ask
  15. no, it repeats
  16. Ask
  17. measure its performance
  18. Ask
  19. Imagine
  20. Plan
  21. pick the build order
  22. dream up possible fixes
  23. Test
  24. False
  25. think of wild ideas
  26. Plan
  27. False
  28. True
  29. Imagine
  30. Plan
  31. Imagine
  32. try it out
  33. True
  34. Improve
  35. False
  36. Create
  37. Test
  38. Ask
  39. Imagine
  40. False

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