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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 107 · 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 “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) make it better, retest
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  14. 14.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) follow the plan to build (d) find the limits
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  22. 22.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) redesign after testing (d) make it better, retest
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  30. 30.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) try it out (c) ask who will use it (d) make it better, retest
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  37. 37.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  39. 39.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas

Answer key

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

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