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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 454 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  5. 5.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) think of wild ideas
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) define the problem
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  12. 12.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  21. 21.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) define the problem
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  31. 31.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  32. 32.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) build the model (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  38. 38.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan

Answer key

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

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