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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 916 · 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.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  6. 6.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  13. 13.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) list the materials (b) pick the build order (c) make it better, retest (d) brainstorm many ideas
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) think of wild ideas (c) list the materials (d) draw a labelled diagram
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) check it against goals
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) brainstorm many ideas
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  30. 30.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) ask who will use it (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to pick the build order is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test

Answer key

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

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