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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 624 · 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.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  4. 4.🔄 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
  5. 5.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) make it better, retest (c) think of wild ideas (d) try it out
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) ask who will use it
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  10. 10.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) think of wild ideas (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  21. 21.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) measure its performance (c) make a prototype (d) think of wild ideas
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make a prototype
  28. 28.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) try it out
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  38. 38.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Ask
  3. redesign after testing
  4. no, it repeats
  5. False
  6. think of wild ideas
  7. dream up possible fixes
  8. ask who will use it
  9. Improve
  10. False
  11. Imagine
  12. Ask
  13. Ask
  14. Imagine
  15. define the problem
  16. Test
  17. Ask
  18. Improve
  19. Plan
  20. Create
  21. False
  22. Ask
  23. Ask
  24. Improve
  25. make a prototype
  26. Create
  27. find the limits
  28. Plan
  29. Ask
  30. Imagine
  31. Plan
  32. Ask
  33. Plan
  34. Imagine
  35. Ask
  36. try it out
  37. Plan
  38. False
  39. Create
  40. Ask

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