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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 71 · 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 define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  3. 3.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  6. 6.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  8. 8.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  15. 15.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) follow the plan to build (c) list the materials (d) find the limits
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) measure its performance (c) fix the weak part (d) think of wild ideas
  21. 21.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) measure its performance (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) pick the build order (c) think of wild ideas (d) make it better, retest
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) fix the weak part
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  35. 35.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) list the materials
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Imagine
  3. True
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. Plan
  7. Create
  8. False
  9. False
  10. Ask
  11. Imagine
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. Ask
  15. True
  16. Improve
  17. Create
  18. False
  19. find the limits
  20. measure its performance
  21. True
  22. ask who will use it
  23. Ask
  24. think of wild ideas
  25. dream up possible fixes
  26. Plan
  27. Improve
  28. Test
  29. Plan
  30. Imagine
  31. Ask
  32. define the problem
  33. Imagine
  34. Imagine
  35. Improve
  36. Ask
  37. Plan
  38. make it better, retest
  39. Create
  40. Test

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