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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 52 · 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 is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  3. 3.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) try it out
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) pick the build order (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  8. 8.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) ask who will use it
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  13. 13.🔄 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
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) list the materials (d) follow the plan to build
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) measure its performance (d) list the materials
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  25. 25.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  29. 29.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) fix the weak part (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  31. 31.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) think of wild ideas (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) list the materials (d) think of wild ideas
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Imagine
  3. True
  4. try it out
  5. Ask
  6. redesign after testing
  7. Ask
  8. True
  9. False
  10. ask who will use it
  11. Ask
  12. Ask
  13. no, it repeats
  14. Create
  15. Imagine
  16. Imagine
  17. follow the plan to build
  18. Imagine
  19. measure its performance
  20. Improve
  21. Test
  22. Ask
  23. Plan
  24. Test
  25. False
  26. dream up possible fixes
  27. Improve
  28. Ask
  29. False
  30. fix the weak part
  31. True
  32. Test
  33. False
  34. make a prototype
  35. Plan
  36. Plan
  37. think of wild ideas
  38. Improve
  39. False
  40. False

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