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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 812 · 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  9. 9.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  13. 13.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) fix the weak part
  21. 21.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) draw a labelled diagram
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  28. 28.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) fix the weak part
  31. 31.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  34. 34.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  40. 40.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. Create
  5. Test
  6. Plan
  7. Test
  8. Improve
  9. False
  10. Ask
  11. Imagine
  12. ask who will use it
  13. False
  14. True
  15. Improve
  16. False
  17. False
  18. find the limits
  19. Plan
  20. pick the build order
  21. False
  22. Create
  23. Imagine
  24. make it better, retest
  25. Imagine
  26. Ask
  27. redesign after testing
  28. False
  29. Imagine
  30. fix the weak part
  31. True
  32. Ask
  33. Plan
  34. True
  35. Ask
  36. Imagine
  37. False
  38. True
  39. Ask
  40. False

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