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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 915 · 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, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  4. 4.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) try it out (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  9. 9.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  13. 13.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  15. 15.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  20. 20.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) follow the plan to build (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) define the problem
  22. 22.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) follow the plan to build (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  31. 31.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) think of wild ideas
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  34. 34.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) draw a labelled diagram
  36. 36.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) try it out (c) dream up possible fixes (d) check it against goals
  39. 39.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Improve
  3. Create
  4. False
  5. Create
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. ask who will use it
  9. no, it repeats
  10. Imagine
  11. Plan
  12. Plan
  13. False
  14. find the limits
  15. True
  16. Plan
  17. Ask
  18. True
  19. Test
  20. False
  21. brainstorm many ideas
  22. True
  23. Create
  24. Imagine
  25. False
  26. Imagine
  27. Test
  28. Improve
  29. dream up possible fixes
  30. Ask
  31. Improve
  32. make a prototype
  33. Improve
  34. True
  35. draw a labelled diagram
  36. True
  37. Create
  38. redesign after testing
  39. True
  40. Plan

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