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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 815 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  9. 9.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  13. 13.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  17. 17.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) follow the plan to build (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  33. 33.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  36. 36.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  38. 38.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) pick the build order
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) make it better, retest

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Test
  3. Improve
  4. Ask
  5. Plan
  6. Ask
  7. Improve
  8. think of wild ideas
  9. True
  10. Plan
  11. Improve
  12. Imagine
  13. True
  14. Ask
  15. Imagine
  16. Create
  17. False
  18. Improve
  19. Ask
  20. Create
  21. Ask
  22. Imagine
  23. define the problem
  24. Imagine
  25. Plan
  26. Test
  27. Imagine
  28. Imagine
  29. check it against goals
  30. Create
  31. Plan
  32. Ask
  33. True
  34. Plan
  35. Plan
  36. True
  37. no, it repeats
  38. True
  39. brainstorm many ideas
  40. ask who will use it

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