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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 247 · 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.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  9. 9.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  13. 13.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) ask who will use it (d) check it against goals
  15. 15.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  16. 16.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  24. 24.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) draw a labelled diagram
  28. 28.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) fix the weak part (d) build the model
  30. 30.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) make a prototype (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. no, it repeats
  3. Plan
  4. Imagine
  5. brainstorm many ideas
  6. Improve
  7. list the materials
  8. Imagine
  9. True
  10. Create
  11. Test
  12. Imagine
  13. False
  14. make a prototype
  15. Ask
  16. False
  17. redesign after testing
  18. Ask
  19. Ask
  20. Create
  21. try it out
  22. Imagine
  23. Create
  24. True
  25. True
  26. Create
  27. draw a labelled diagram
  28. True
  29. define the problem
  30. True
  31. Plan
  32. Imagine
  33. dream up possible fixes
  34. Ask
  35. Test
  36. Ask
  37. Ask
  38. Test
  39. think of wild ideas
  40. Improve

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