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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 264 · 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) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) measure its performance (d) ask who will use it
  8. 8.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Test
  11. 11.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  25. 25.🔄 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
  26. 26.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  31. 31.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) check it against goals (c) try it out (d) brainstorm many ideas
  33. 33.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) fix the weak part (d) make a prototype
  38. 38.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Create
  2. Imagine
  3. Test
  4. Improve
  5. Plan
  6. Create
  7. measure its performance
  8. False
  9. Imagine
  10. Create
  11. Ask
  12. False
  13. False
  14. Plan
  15. Improve
  16. Plan
  17. Ask
  18. Create
  19. Plan
  20. Ask
  21. Imagine
  22. Test
  23. list the materials
  24. Ask
  25. no, it repeats
  26. True
  27. Improve
  28. Imagine
  29. True
  30. try it out
  31. False
  32. make it better, retest
  33. False
  34. Ask
  35. False
  36. Improve
  37. make a prototype
  38. False
  39. True
  40. True

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