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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 713 · 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.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) pick the build order (d) try it out
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) ask who will use it (d) check it against goals
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) check it against goals (d) fix the weak part
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) try it out
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  17. 17.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  19. 19.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) pick the build order
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  25. 25.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  27. 27.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  33. 33.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) follow the plan to build (d) draw a labelled diagram
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  38. 38.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) try it out (c) pick the build order (d) redesign after testing
  40. 40.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Imagine
  3. Improve
  4. True
  5. True
  6. False
  7. Ask
  8. build the model
  9. make a prototype
  10. Improve
  11. check it against goals
  12. dream up possible fixes
  13. brainstorm many ideas
  14. Create
  15. Imagine
  16. Improve
  17. Plan
  18. Imagine
  19. no, it repeats
  20. Imagine
  21. Ask
  22. find the limits
  23. ask who will use it
  24. draw a labelled diagram
  25. False
  26. Test
  27. False
  28. Ask
  29. Imagine
  30. Plan
  31. Plan
  32. Ask
  33. False
  34. True
  35. Test
  36. follow the plan to build
  37. Plan
  38. True
  39. redesign after testing
  40. False

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