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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 153 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) list the materials (d) try it out
  6. 6.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  8. 8.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) fix the weak part
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  15. 15.🔄 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
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) check it against goals
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) dream up possible fixes (c) make it better, retest (d) ask who will use it
  27. 27.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) redesign after testing (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) pick the build order
  35. 35.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) redesign after testing
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. Plan
  4. Ask
  5. try it out
  6. True
  7. Imagine
  8. False
  9. Ask
  10. Improve
  11. Plan
  12. fix the weak part
  13. Imagine
  14. Create
  15. no, it repeats
  16. Create
  17. Create
  18. follow the plan to build
  19. Imagine
  20. check it against goals
  21. Plan
  22. Plan
  23. Imagine
  24. Test
  25. Improve
  26. dream up possible fixes
  27. False
  28. Improve
  29. Imagine
  30. Test
  31. measure its performance
  32. True
  33. Plan
  34. redesign after testing
  35. True
  36. Ask
  37. brainstorm many ideas
  38. Improve
  39. Ask
  40. Ask

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