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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 60 · 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 comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) brainstorm many ideas
  3. 3.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  9. 9.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  15. 15.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  19. 19.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) build the model (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) check it against goals
  22. 22.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) find the limits
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  30. 30.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) find the limits (c) redesign after testing (d) brainstorm many ideas
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) check it against goals (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) measure its performance
  35. 35.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  40. 40.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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