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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 273 · 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 “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  5. 5.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) dream up possible fixes
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  13. 13.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) fix the weak part (c) dream up possible fixes (d) ask who will use it
  16. 16.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  20. 20.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  21. 21.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  26. 26.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  30. 30.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) dream up possible fixes (c) fix the weak part (d) ask who will use it
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) make it better, retest (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) follow the plan to build (c) try it out (d) find the limits
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  38. 38.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  40. 40.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Test
  2. Imagine
  3. no, it repeats
  4. Imagine
  5. False
  6. Improve
  7. define the problem
  8. brainstorm many ideas
  9. dream up possible fixes
  10. follow the plan to build
  11. Test
  12. Plan
  13. False
  14. Test
  15. ask who will use it
  16. True
  17. Plan
  18. Create
  19. Imagine
  20. True
  21. False
  22. Imagine
  23. Ask
  24. Improve
  25. Create
  26. True
  27. Improve
  28. Improve
  29. Ask
  30. False
  31. Improve
  32. fix the weak part
  33. Test
  34. Ask
  35. find the limits
  36. try it out
  37. redesign after testing
  38. False
  39. Improve
  40. True

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