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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 680 · 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.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  9. 9.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  13. 13.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) try it out
  18. 18.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) redesign after testing (c) follow the plan to build (d) make a prototype
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) make it better, retest
  22. 22.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  33. 33.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) try it out (d) list the materials
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  37. 37.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. True
  3. Create
  4. Plan
  5. Ask
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. Ask
  9. True
  10. Plan
  11. build the model
  12. no, it repeats
  13. True
  14. Improve
  15. find the limits
  16. Plan
  17. try it out
  18. True
  19. redesign after testing
  20. Ask
  21. brainstorm many ideas
  22. False
  23. Plan
  24. Improve
  25. pick the build order
  26. Plan
  27. Test
  28. Create
  29. False
  30. Create
  31. Imagine
  32. Test
  33. Ask
  34. list the materials
  35. Imagine
  36. Plan
  37. Improve
  38. False
  39. ask who will use it
  40. Imagine

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