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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 111 · 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 “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  4. 4.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Plan
  11. 11.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) redesign after testing
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  19. 19.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) ask who will use it (c) build the model (d) dream up possible fixes
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.True or false: to pick the build order is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  27. 27.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  30. 30.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to list the materials is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) make it better, retest
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) redesign after testing (c) ask who will use it (d) make it better, retest
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  37. 37.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  40. 40.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Ask
  3. Improve
  4. True
  5. False
  6. Improve
  7. no, it repeats
  8. Plan
  9. Imagine
  10. Ask
  11. True
  12. Improve
  13. Imagine
  14. redesign after testing
  15. Ask
  16. Ask
  17. follow the plan to build
  18. Improve
  19. False
  20. build the model
  21. Create
  22. Ask
  23. False
  24. False
  25. False
  26. Create
  27. Plan
  28. False
  29. Test
  30. True
  31. Imagine
  32. False
  33. Imagine
  34. define the problem
  35. dream up possible fixes
  36. make a prototype
  37. True
  38. True
  39. Create
  40. True

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