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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 941 · 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 comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) measure its performance (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) pick the build order (d) draw a labelled diagram
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) follow the plan to build (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  22. 22.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  24. 24.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) find the limits
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  32. 32.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔄 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
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) make it better, retest (c) list the materials (d) ask who will use it
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) dream up possible fixes (c) follow the plan to build (d) define the problem
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine

Answer key

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

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