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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 750 · 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.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) make a prototype (d) brainstorm many ideas
  6. 6.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  11. 11.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  13. 13.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) think of wild ideas (d) list the materials
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) dream up possible fixes (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  29. 29.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  34. 34.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) check it against goals
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask

Answer key

  1. True
  2. Improve
  3. Create
  4. make a prototype
  5. brainstorm many ideas
  6. no, it repeats
  7. Plan
  8. Plan
  9. Ask
  10. Ask
  11. False
  12. define the problem
  13. True
  14. Improve
  15. Imagine
  16. Improve
  17. Create
  18. Ask
  19. Imagine
  20. Plan
  21. Ask
  22. Ask
  23. list the materials
  24. Ask
  25. find the limits
  26. Improve
  27. Ask
  28. Test
  29. False
  30. Create
  31. Ask
  32. False
  33. Test
  34. False
  35. True
  36. Improve
  37. check it against goals
  38. Imagine
  39. follow the plan to build
  40. Test

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