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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 178 · 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, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  4. 4.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  12. 12.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  13. 13.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) think of wild ideas
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) define the problem
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) brainstorm many ideas
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) find the limits (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) follow the plan to build (d) ask who will use it
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) check it against goals (d) brainstorm many ideas
  27. 27.True or false: to measure its performance is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  29. 29.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: to define the problem is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) make it better, retest (c) try it out (d) list the materials
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  39. 39.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Test
  3. Imagine
  4. True
  5. Improve
  6. Test
  7. Create
  8. Ask
  9. Ask
  10. Ask
  11. make it better, retest
  12. no, it repeats
  13. True
  14. build the model
  15. Improve
  16. think of wild ideas
  17. Ask
  18. redesign after testing
  19. ask who will use it
  20. Ask
  21. measure its performance
  22. Imagine
  23. Plan
  24. follow the plan to build
  25. Ask
  26. check it against goals
  27. False
  28. Improve
  29. True
  30. False
  31. True
  32. Imagine
  33. Test
  34. Improve
  35. Create
  36. list the materials
  37. Plan
  38. Imagine
  39. False
  40. draw a labelled diagram

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