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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 256 · 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 “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) make a prototype
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) make a prototype (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  10. 10.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) build the model (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) make it better, retest (c) list the materials (d) define the problem
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  17. 17.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  22. 22.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  25. 25.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) check it against goals (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) measure its performance (d) fix the weak part
  33. 33.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  35. 35.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to make a prototype is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. Plan
  3. think of wild ideas
  4. Ask
  5. dream up possible fixes
  6. Ask
  7. Improve
  8. Imagine
  9. Test
  10. False
  11. Improve
  12. build the model
  13. follow the plan to build
  14. Imagine
  15. Create
  16. Test
  17. no, it repeats
  18. Plan
  19. Improve
  20. Ask
  21. Plan
  22. False
  23. Improve
  24. Imagine
  25. True
  26. Ask
  27. Imagine
  28. Improve
  29. Ask
  30. Imagine
  31. ask who will use it
  32. measure its performance
  33. Plan
  34. Plan
  35. False
  36. False
  37. False
  38. True
  39. False
  40. Ask

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