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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 527 · 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 brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  12. 12.🔄 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
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  16. 16.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  19. 19.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  29. 29.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) redesign after testing (d) make it better, retest
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  34. 34.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) build the model

Answer key

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

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