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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 110 · 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, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  9. 9.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) redesign after testing (d) draw a labelled diagram
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  14. 14.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  16. 16.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  18. 18.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) draw a labelled diagram
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) measure its performance (c) follow the plan to build (d) try it out
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  31. 31.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) find the limits (c) pick the build order (d) think of wild ideas
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  38. 38.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. Ask
  3. Improve
  4. Improve
  5. no, it repeats
  6. Imagine
  7. Create
  8. Improve
  9. True
  10. Plan
  11. Ask
  12. draw a labelled diagram
  13. Imagine
  14. False
  15. Imagine
  16. True
  17. Ask
  18. True
  19. make it better, retest
  20. Improve
  21. Create
  22. Ask
  23. fix the weak part
  24. Ask
  25. False
  26. Imagine
  27. Imagine
  28. follow the plan to build
  29. Plan
  30. Improve
  31. Plan
  32. Test
  33. Imagine
  34. False
  35. pick the build order
  36. Create
  37. Ask
  38. True
  39. False
  40. False

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