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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 558 · 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 pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  9. 9.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) follow the plan to build (d) draw a labelled diagram
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) fix the weak part
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) make it better, retest (d) check it against goals
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  18. 18.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) measure its performance (d) dream up possible fixes
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) redesign after testing (c) make a prototype (d) list the materials
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) list the materials (d) check it against goals
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) build the model
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  28. 28.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  30. 30.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Create
  3. define the problem
  4. Plan
  5. Improve
  6. Imagine
  7. Improve
  8. Ask
  9. False
  10. follow the plan to build
  11. Improve
  12. Imagine
  13. list the materials
  14. check it against goals
  15. Create
  16. Imagine
  17. no, it repeats
  18. False
  19. False
  20. Ask
  21. dream up possible fixes
  22. Imagine
  23. redesign after testing
  24. make it better, retest
  25. build the model
  26. Create
  27. brainstorm many ideas
  28. True
  29. Imagine
  30. True
  31. Plan
  32. False
  33. Test
  34. Test
  35. False
  36. Plan
  37. Ask
  38. Ask
  39. Ask
  40. False

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