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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 945 · 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 check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  2. 2.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  5. 5.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) try it out (c) make a prototype (d) ask who will use it
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  17. 17.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  20. 20.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  23. 23.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) think of wild ideas (d) measure its performance
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) make a prototype (c) dream up possible fixes (d) measure its performance
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) define the problem
  37. 37.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) fix the weak part
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. False
  2. False
  3. Ask
  4. Imagine
  5. False
  6. Plan
  7. Improve
  8. Improve
  9. Plan
  10. Improve
  11. Ask
  12. ask who will use it
  13. Create
  14. Create
  15. Ask
  16. Imagine
  17. False
  18. try it out
  19. Create
  20. True
  21. Ask
  22. fix the weak part
  23. Ask
  24. find the limits
  25. Create
  26. Test
  27. Plan
  28. Imagine
  29. Ask
  30. draw a labelled diagram
  31. Test
  32. dream up possible fixes
  33. Imagine
  34. Imagine
  35. Improve
  36. check it against goals
  37. False
  38. no, it repeats
  39. define the problem
  40. Imagine

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