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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 124 · 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: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  4. 4.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) redesign after testing (d) check it against goals
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) make it better, retest (d) measure its performance
  11. 11.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  12. 12.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) measure its performance (d) make a prototype
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) find the limits (d) brainstorm many ideas
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  20. 20.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) think of wild ideas (d) draw a labelled diagram
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  26. 26.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  28. 28.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) make it better, retest (c) follow the plan to build (d) redesign after testing
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) measure its performance
  33. 33.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) try it out (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) measure its performance
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) follow the plan to build
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  38. 38.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Test
  3. no, it repeats
  4. False
  5. Improve
  6. Improve
  7. False
  8. ask who will use it
  9. Ask
  10. define the problem
  11. Ask
  12. True
  13. make a prototype
  14. Ask
  15. Create
  16. brainstorm many ideas
  17. Plan
  18. Imagine
  19. Ask
  20. False
  21. False
  22. Plan
  23. think of wild ideas
  24. Ask
  25. Imagine
  26. True
  27. Imagine
  28. False
  29. follow the plan to build
  30. Test
  31. Create
  32. draw a labelled diagram
  33. True
  34. list the materials
  35. Plan
  36. dream up possible fixes
  37. Improve
  38. True
  39. Plan
  40. Plan

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