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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 646 · 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 of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) dream up possible fixes (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) redesign after testing
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) list the materials
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  14. 14.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) fix the weak part (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only on Sundays
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  28. 28.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  36. 36.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) follow the plan to build (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask

Answer key

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

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