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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 737 · 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) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Improve
  3. 3.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  5. 5.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  13. 13.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) make a prototype
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  19. 19.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  22. 22.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) ask who will use it (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make a prototype (d) think of wild ideas
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  35. 35.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) make a prototype (c) dream up possible fixes (d) fix the weak part
  37. 37.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) draw a labelled diagram
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make it better, retest

Answer key

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

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