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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 923 · 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 try it out is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) make a prototype (d) fix the weak part
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  9. 9.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  13. 13.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) fix the weak part (d) make it better, retest
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  18. 18.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) fix the weak part (d) think of wild ideas
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  26. 26.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) try it out (c) follow the plan to build (d) think of wild ideas
  28. 28.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) brainstorm many ideas
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  33. 33.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  38. 38.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. False
  2. Plan
  3. Ask
  4. Test
  5. Create
  6. check it against goals
  7. Test
  8. Ask
  9. True
  10. Ask
  11. Improve
  12. Ask
  13. False
  14. Imagine
  15. try it out
  16. make a prototype
  17. Improve
  18. True
  19. Plan
  20. Create
  21. Create
  22. Ask
  23. fix the weak part
  24. Improve
  25. Test
  26. False
  27. think of wild ideas
  28. no, it repeats
  29. brainstorm many ideas
  30. define the problem
  31. Improve
  32. Create
  33. Improve
  34. False
  35. Imagine
  36. Ask
  37. ask who will use it
  38. Plan
  39. build the model
  40. True

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