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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 939 · 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 “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  4. 4.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) make it better, retest (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) build the model (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) build the model (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  13. 13.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) try it out
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) check it against goals (d) redesign after testing
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) pick the build order
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  29. 29.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  32. 32.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  36. 36.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  39. 39.True or false: to pick the build order is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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