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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 56 · 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 make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) list the materials
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  6. 6.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) try it out
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) try it out
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  15. 15.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) make a prototype (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  21. 21.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) measure its performance
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  26. 26.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  31. 31.🔄 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
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Ask
  3. Plan
  4. list the materials
  5. make it better, retest
  6. False
  7. Ask
  8. Improve
  9. try it out
  10. Ask
  11. Improve
  12. brainstorm many ideas
  13. Create
  14. Imagine
  15. False
  16. Plan
  17. Create
  18. Create
  19. Ask
  20. fix the weak part
  21. True
  22. redesign after testing
  23. Plan
  24. Create
  25. Ask
  26. True
  27. measure its performance
  28. Improve
  29. Test
  30. Create
  31. no, it repeats
  32. True
  33. Test
  34. Create
  35. Test
  36. Imagine
  37. Imagine
  38. Plan
  39. Plan
  40. True

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