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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 889 · 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 list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) try it out (c) build the model (d) find the limits
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) measure its performance (c) think of wild ideas (d) brainstorm many ideas
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  9. 9.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  28. 28.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) build the model (c) follow the plan to build (d) dream up possible fixes
  31. 31.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  32. 32.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  33. 33.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) list the materials (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) measure its performance (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  38. 38.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test

Answer key

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

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