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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 735 · 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, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) dream up possible fixes (d) try it out
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make it better, retest (c) ask who will use it (d) brainstorm many ideas
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  9. 9.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) make it better, retest (c) list the materials (d) fix the weak part
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  18. 18.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  25. 25.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  27. 27.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  31. 31.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) try it out (d) define the problem
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test

Answer key

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

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