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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 195 · 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  5. 5.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) try it out (d) redesign after testing
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  8. 8.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔄 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
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) check it against goals (c) measure its performance (d) ask who will use it
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) list the materials
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) redesign after testing
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) check it against goals (d) dream up possible fixes
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) measure its performance (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) redesign after testing (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  27. 27.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) try it out (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  37. 37.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to pick the build order is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. Create
  3. Improve
  4. Imagine
  5. False
  6. find the limits
  7. Plan
  8. True
  9. no, it repeats
  10. Plan
  11. make it better, retest
  12. redesign after testing
  13. Create
  14. Plan
  15. Ask
  16. build the model
  17. think of wild ideas
  18. check it against goals
  19. pick the build order
  20. Ask
  21. Test
  22. Ask
  23. Imagine
  24. Improve
  25. brainstorm many ideas
  26. define the problem
  27. True
  28. Plan
  29. True
  30. Ask
  31. Ask
  32. Imagine
  33. try it out
  34. Test
  35. Plan
  36. Plan
  37. False
  38. False
  39. Ask
  40. False

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