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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 962 · 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 check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  3. 3.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  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, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  14. 14.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) make a prototype (c) make it better, retest (d) check it against goals
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) make a prototype
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  25. 25.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) try it out (d) draw a labelled diagram
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) fix the weak part (c) pick the build order (d) draw a labelled diagram
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  33. 33.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  36. 36.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. brainstorm many ideas
  3. False
  4. Improve
  5. Imagine
  6. Ask
  7. Plan
  8. Plan
  9. Ask
  10. Ask
  11. Imagine
  12. Imagine
  13. Improve
  14. False
  15. Test
  16. Create
  17. Improve
  18. Ask
  19. Plan
  20. False
  21. make a prototype
  22. Create
  23. make it better, retest
  24. Ask
  25. False
  26. measure its performance
  27. try it out
  28. Imagine
  29. fix the weak part
  30. Improve
  31. no, it repeats
  32. Create
  33. False
  34. Ask
  35. ask who will use it
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Ask
  39. Imagine
  40. pick the build order

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