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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 895 · 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 LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  3. 3.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) fix the weak part (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  13. 13.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  15. 15.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) fix the weak part
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  21. 21.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  29. 29.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) measure its performance (d) brainstorm many ideas
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) try it out (d) make a prototype
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) list the materials
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) measure its performance (d) pick the build order
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Imagine
  3. True
  4. Plan
  5. Ask
  6. define the problem
  7. Imagine
  8. check it against goals
  9. Ask
  10. Create
  11. Test
  12. Test
  13. False
  14. Ask
  15. Plan
  16. Improve
  17. Improve
  18. Imagine
  19. draw a labelled diagram
  20. Imagine
  21. True
  22. Test
  23. Plan
  24. Create
  25. Ask
  26. try it out
  27. Test
  28. Create
  29. False
  30. True
  31. fix the weak part
  32. Plan
  33. make a prototype
  34. Ask
  35. brainstorm many ideas
  36. Plan
  37. build the model
  38. pick the build order
  39. Create
  40. True

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