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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 113 · 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 “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) redesign after testing
  7. 7.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) dream up possible fixes (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  17. 17.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) follow the plan to build
  26. 26.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  27. 27.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  34. 34.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  35. 35.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) redesign after testing
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan

Answer key

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

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