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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 50 · 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.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) build the model (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  12. 12.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) define the problem (c) find the limits (d) make it better, retest
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) follow the plan to build (d) find the limits
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  19. 19.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) think of wild ideas
  27. 27.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) ask who will use it (c) check it against goals (d) follow the plan to build
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) list the materials
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  40. 40.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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