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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 43 · 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 design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) think of wild ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  10. 10.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  15. 15.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  18. 18.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  21. 21.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  30. 30.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  39. 39.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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