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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 115 · 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: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) try it out (d) define the problem
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) redesign after testing
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) define the problem (c) check it against goals (d) follow the plan to build
  12. 12.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make it better, retest (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  19. 19.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  21. 21.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) follow the plan to build (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) make it better, retest
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) make it better, retest (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  26. 26.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) make it better, retest (c) follow the plan to build (d) dream up possible fixes
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  32. 32.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  33. 33.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. no, it repeats
  3. define the problem
  4. Ask
  5. Improve
  6. True
  7. Ask
  8. Ask
  9. Improve
  10. redesign after testing
  11. follow the plan to build
  12. True
  13. Create
  14. fix the weak part
  15. Ask
  16. Improve
  17. measure its performance
  18. Test
  19. False
  20. Ask
  21. False
  22. list the materials
  23. Ask
  24. make a prototype
  25. brainstorm many ideas
  26. False
  27. True
  28. Imagine
  29. Plan
  30. make it better, retest
  31. Plan
  32. Plan
  33. False
  34. Test
  35. Imagine
  36. Plan
  37. Create
  38. Test
  39. Ask
  40. Create

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