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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 325 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  3. 3.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) think of wild ideas (d) build the model
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) make a prototype
  17. 17.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  20. 20.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) try it out (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  28. 28.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) list the materials (d) try it out
  30. 30.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  32. 32.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) think of wild ideas (c) list the materials (d) measure its performance
  36. 36.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Imagine
  3. False
  4. Imagine
  5. Create
  6. brainstorm many ideas
  7. build the model
  8. Imagine
  9. Plan
  10. Plan
  11. Improve
  12. Ask
  13. Imagine
  14. Ask
  15. Plan
  16. make a prototype
  17. Plan
  18. Improve
  19. list the materials
  20. Improve
  21. False
  22. Improve
  23. True
  24. False
  25. Imagine
  26. Plan
  27. make it better, retest
  28. False
  29. try it out
  30. False
  31. Test
  32. no, it repeats
  33. redesign after testing
  34. Create
  35. measure its performance
  36. True
  37. Ask
  38. Plan
  39. Create
  40. Test

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