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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 227 · 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 list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  2. 2.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  4. 4.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  6. 6.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  12. 12.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) measure its performance (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) find the limits (d) fix the weak part
  20. 20.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  22. 22.🔄 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
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  30. 30.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  31. 31.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) think of wild ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) follow the plan to build
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  37. 37.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  40. 40.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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