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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 260 · 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 of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) measure its performance
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) dream up possible fixes (d) list the materials
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  14. 14.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  16. 16.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) pick the build order (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) check it against goals (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) fix the weak part (c) make a prototype (d) follow the plan to build
  21. 21.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  24. 24.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  30. 30.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  38. 38.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) check it against goals (d) think of wild ideas
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) think of wild ideas (d) make a prototype

Answer key

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

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