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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 147 · 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.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) redesign after testing (c) pick the build order (d) ask who will use it
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  10. 10.🔄 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
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  12. 12.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) redesign after testing (c) measure its performance (d) pick the build order
  15. 15.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) measure its performance (c) make a prototype (d) define the problem
  18. 18.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) define the problem (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) think of wild ideas (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make a prototype
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  28. 28.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  33. 33.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  35. 35.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) make a prototype (d) redesign after testing

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Imagine
  3. Create
  4. Plan
  5. Imagine
  6. Ask
  7. draw a labelled diagram
  8. pick the build order
  9. Imagine
  10. no, it repeats
  11. Plan
  12. False
  13. Plan
  14. redesign after testing
  15. False
  16. Improve
  17. measure its performance
  18. True
  19. Test
  20. dream up possible fixes
  21. Improve
  22. Improve
  23. True
  24. Improve
  25. think of wild ideas
  26. try it out
  27. Imagine
  28. True
  29. find the limits
  30. Ask
  31. Ask
  32. Plan
  33. True
  34. Create
  35. False
  36. ask who will use it
  37. Test
  38. Imagine
  39. Test
  40. define the problem

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