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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 275 · 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 comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) make it better, retest (d) find the limits
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) find the limits
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  11. 11.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  19. 19.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) build the model (d) follow the plan to build
  23. 23.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) find the limits (c) measure its performance (d) try it out
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) check it against goals (d) try it out
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) list the materials (b) fix the weak part (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  35. 35.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) define the problem
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Ask
  3. find the limits
  4. Improve
  5. Ask
  6. dream up possible fixes
  7. Ask
  8. Test
  9. Improve
  10. Ask
  11. True
  12. False
  13. False
  14. Improve
  15. Imagine
  16. Ask
  17. Plan
  18. Test
  19. False
  20. False
  21. True
  22. define the problem
  23. False
  24. Create
  25. pick the build order
  26. Create
  27. Ask
  28. False
  29. Imagine
  30. build the model
  31. measure its performance
  32. Ask
  33. Test
  34. Improve
  35. Plan
  36. Ask
  37. Improve
  38. follow the plan to build
  39. Test
  40. False

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