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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 768 · 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 is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  10. 10.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) measure its performance (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  18. 18.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  22. 22.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) fix the weak part (c) redesign after testing (d) think of wild ideas
  26. 26.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  29. 29.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) try it out
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  38. 38.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) make a prototype (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Plan
  3. Plan
  4. no, it repeats
  5. Create
  6. Imagine
  7. Improve
  8. Improve
  9. Imagine
  10. False
  11. Imagine
  12. Ask
  13. Ask
  14. Ask
  15. Imagine
  16. Ask
  17. brainstorm many ideas
  18. False
  19. Test
  20. Plan
  21. Ask
  22. True
  23. False
  24. Improve
  25. find the limits
  26. Plan
  27. Imagine
  28. Plan
  29. True
  30. Create
  31. True
  32. Imagine
  33. Create
  34. try it out
  35. True
  36. Improve
  37. build the model
  38. False
  39. redesign after testing
  40. dream up possible fixes

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