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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 600 · 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 is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  3. 3.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  11. 11.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  13. 13.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) dream up possible fixes (d) redesign after testing
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) try it out
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) dream up possible fixes
  28. 28.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) pick the build order (d) build the model
  30. 30.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  36. 36.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) fix the weak part (d) build the model
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test

Answer key

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

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