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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 870 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  2. 2.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) try it out (d) draw a labelled diagram
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) follow the plan to build (c) think of wild ideas (d) check it against goals
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  19. 19.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) ask who will use it (d) make it better, retest
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) pick the build order (d) dream up possible fixes
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) define the problem (c) follow the plan to build (d) list the materials
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  36. 36.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to find the limits is the Test 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: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask

Answer key

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

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