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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 669 · 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 try it out? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) try it out
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  8. 8.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  14. 14.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) draw a labelled diagram
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) fix the weak part (c) find the limits (d) ask who will use it
  26. 26.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  31. 31.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) define the problem (c) fix the weak part (d) ask who will use it
  35. 35.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) dream up possible fixes (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) build the model

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. define the problem
  3. Improve
  4. False
  5. Imagine
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. False
  9. Improve
  10. no, it repeats
  11. Plan
  12. Create
  13. ask who will use it
  14. False
  15. draw a labelled diagram
  16. Ask
  17. Ask
  18. False
  19. redesign after testing
  20. Plan
  21. Test
  22. Improve
  23. Improve
  24. Imagine
  25. fix the weak part
  26. False
  27. Plan
  28. Imagine
  29. Ask
  30. Create
  31. True
  32. False
  33. Imagine
  34. list the materials
  35. False
  36. Plan
  37. Plan
  38. check it against goals
  39. Imagine
  40. brainstorm many ideas

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