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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 447 · 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 ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) give up
  3. 3.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  8. 8.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) redesign after testing (c) try it out (d) define the problem
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  20. 20.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) list the materials
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  27. 27.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) list the materials
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) make it better, retest (d) check it against goals
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) try it out (c) pick the build order (d) think of wild ideas
  38. 38.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Improve
  3. False
  4. Imagine
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. False
  9. no, it repeats
  10. Plan
  11. define the problem
  12. draw a labelled diagram
  13. Imagine
  14. Test
  15. Create
  16. Create
  17. Improve
  18. Ask
  19. Imagine
  20. False
  21. measure its performance
  22. Improve
  23. build the model
  24. ask who will use it
  25. Plan
  26. try it out
  27. False
  28. redesign after testing
  29. dream up possible fixes
  30. make a prototype
  31. find the limits
  32. brainstorm many ideas
  33. Plan
  34. Ask
  35. Imagine
  36. Test
  37. pick the build order
  38. False
  39. Imagine
  40. Create

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