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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 45 · 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 define the problem? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  6. 6.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  9. 9.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) check it against goals
  13. 13.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) check it against goals (d) fix the weak part
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  22. 22.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) measure its performance (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) define the problem (c) make it better, retest (d) draw a labelled diagram
  30. 30.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) define the problem
  32. 32.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  36. 36.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  38. 38.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. no, it repeats
  3. Ask
  4. Imagine
  5. Ask
  6. False
  7. redesign after testing
  8. Plan
  9. True
  10. Improve
  11. Plan
  12. check it against goals
  13. False
  14. Improve
  15. Plan
  16. Plan
  17. Improve
  18. False
  19. Test
  20. draw a labelled diagram
  21. Create
  22. False
  23. build the model
  24. Ask
  25. Create
  26. Imagine
  27. Imagine
  28. follow the plan to build
  29. define the problem
  30. True
  31. dream up possible fixes
  32. True
  33. Improve
  34. Plan
  35. make a prototype
  36. True
  37. Plan
  38. True
  39. Create
  40. Test

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