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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 248 · 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 LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  2. 2.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  3. 3.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) define the problem (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) list the materials (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  12. 12.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) try it out (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) find the limits (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make a prototype
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) build the model
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  20. 20.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Test
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) measure its performance (c) pick the build order (d) dream up possible fixes
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) redesign after testing (d) define the problem
  40. 40.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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