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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 216 · 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 is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  4. 4.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) try it out (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) build the model (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  11. 11.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  12. 12.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  17. 17.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) list the materials (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  19. 19.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) define the problem (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) find the limits (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  24. 24.True or false: to build the model is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) build the model (d) try it out
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make a prototype (d) measure its performance
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) find the limits (d) measure its performance
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) make it better, retest (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Plan
  3. Ask
  4. False
  5. pick the build order
  6. Ask
  7. Ask
  8. Improve
  9. draw a labelled diagram
  10. Plan
  11. Improve
  12. True
  13. False
  14. False
  15. Improve
  16. Test
  17. True
  18. list the materials
  19. no, it repeats
  20. Ask
  21. define the problem
  22. follow the plan to build
  23. Plan
  24. False
  25. Test
  26. Create
  27. Ask
  28. build the model
  29. Imagine
  30. Ask
  31. Plan
  32. True
  33. True
  34. Imagine
  35. brainstorm many ideas
  36. measure its performance
  37. Test
  38. Improve
  39. check it against goals
  40. Ask

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