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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 276 · 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.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  4. 4.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) try it out
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  12. 12.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) redesign after testing (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) dream up possible fixes (d) pick the build order
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  20. 20.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  22. 22.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) think of wild ideas
  28. 28.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) try it out
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  35. 35.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) measure its performance
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) draw a labelled diagram
  38. 38.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Test
  3. Plan
  4. False
  5. Ask
  6. Improve
  7. make it better, retest
  8. Ask
  9. Imagine
  10. Create
  11. build the model
  12. False
  13. list the materials
  14. Plan
  15. Plan
  16. Test
  17. dream up possible fixes
  18. Imagine
  19. Plan
  20. False
  21. Ask
  22. False
  23. Imagine
  24. Plan
  25. ask who will use it
  26. Create
  27. follow the plan to build
  28. False
  29. Ask
  30. Improve
  31. try it out
  32. Improve
  33. Test
  34. Ask
  35. no, it repeats
  36. define the problem
  37. brainstorm many ideas
  38. False
  39. Create
  40. Test

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