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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 707 · 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 fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  3. 3.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) pick the build order (d) check it against goals
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  11. 11.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) try it out (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) pick the build order
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  28. 28.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  30. 30.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) redesign after testing (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  35. 35.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) find the limits (d) ask who will use it

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Imagine
  3. True
  4. Improve
  5. build the model
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. Plan
  9. Imagine
  10. Plan
  11. True
  12. Imagine
  13. dream up possible fixes
  14. ask who will use it
  15. Imagine
  16. Ask
  17. Create
  18. True
  19. Improve
  20. Imagine
  21. Plan
  22. Plan
  23. Ask
  24. Improve
  25. Test
  26. Create
  27. Create
  28. False
  29. Plan
  30. False
  31. Test
  32. Create
  33. Ask
  34. list the materials
  35. no, it repeats
  36. Test
  37. Ask
  38. Ask
  39. Ask
  40. fix the weak part

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