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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 953 · 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) follow the plan to build (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  13. 13.True or false: to make a prototype is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) list the materials (d) redesign after testing
  16. 16.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) find the limits
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) make a prototype (d) pick the build order
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) measure its performance
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) make it better, retest (d) make a prototype
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) list the materials (c) define the problem (d) think of wild ideas
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  38. 38.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make a prototype (c) try it out (d) check it against goals

Answer key

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

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