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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 160 · 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 “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 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
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) measure its performance (c) check it against goals (d) build the model
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) draw a labelled diagram
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) fix the weak part
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) follow the plan to build (c) make a prototype (d) think of wild ideas
  19. 19.True or false: to build the model is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  25. 25.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) think of wild ideas (c) measure its performance (d) dream up possible fixes
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) measure its performance (d) pick the build order
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  32. 32.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  35. 35.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create

Answer key

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

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