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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 949 · 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: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) try it out (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) make a prototype (d) redesign after testing
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  14. 14.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  21. 21.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make a prototype (d) pick the build order
  26. 26.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  28. 28.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) follow the plan to build (d) list the materials
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) try it out
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) dream up possible fixes
  33. 33.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) dream up possible fixes (c) build the model (d) find the limits
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) find the limits (d) list the materials

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Plan
  3. Plan
  4. follow the plan to build
  5. Plan
  6. Ask
  7. Plan
  8. Ask
  9. think of wild ideas
  10. redesign after testing
  11. Test
  12. Plan
  13. Ask
  14. True
  15. Improve
  16. Plan
  17. Create
  18. False
  19. Create
  20. no, it repeats
  21. True
  22. Ask
  23. Ask
  24. Create
  25. pick the build order
  26. False
  27. Improve
  28. Improve
  29. Imagine
  30. ask who will use it
  31. try it out
  32. check it against goals
  33. True
  34. find the limits
  35. build the model
  36. Ask
  37. Create
  38. Improve
  39. Imagine
  40. list the materials

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