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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 272 · 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: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  3. 3.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  5. 5.🔄 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
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) draw a labelled diagram
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) pick the build order (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  21. 21.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) ask who will use it
  24. 24.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  25. 25.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  28. 28.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) ask who will use it (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) measure its performance (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  34. 34.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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