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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 539 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) build the model
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) dream up possible fixes (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) fix the weak part
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  11. 11.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) redesign after testing
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) fix the weak part (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) check it against goals (d) brainstorm many ideas
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  27. 27.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  36. 36.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) list the materials (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) redesign after testing

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Imagine
  3. Test
  4. fix the weak part
  5. Imagine
  6. Improve
  7. find the limits
  8. Imagine
  9. Test
  10. build the model
  11. False
  12. Imagine
  13. Create
  14. Test
  15. redesign after testing
  16. Improve
  17. Ask
  18. False
  19. True
  20. list the materials
  21. Create
  22. Ask
  23. True
  24. check it against goals
  25. Plan
  26. Plan
  27. Plan
  28. Improve
  29. define the problem
  30. Plan
  31. Ask
  32. Plan
  33. Ask
  34. Imagine
  35. Create
  36. True
  37. Improve
  38. measure its performance
  39. True
  40. brainstorm many ideas

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