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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 277 · 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 “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) list the materials
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  10. 10.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) try it out
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) make it better, retest (d) follow the plan to build
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  23. 23.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Test
  25. 25.True or false: to make a prototype is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) measure its performance (d) pick the build order
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) find the limits (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) try it out (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  35. 35.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) make a prototype
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  39. 39.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Improve
  3. True
  4. make a prototype
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. Plan
  8. Ask
  9. Ask
  10. True
  11. True
  12. False
  13. Improve
  14. Ask
  15. Imagine
  16. Ask
  17. Ask
  18. brainstorm many ideas
  19. follow the plan to build
  20. Test
  21. Ask
  22. Improve
  23. False
  24. Improve
  25. False
  26. False
  27. Imagine
  28. measure its performance
  29. check it against goals
  30. Imagine
  31. build the model
  32. fix the weak part
  33. Improve
  34. Imagine
  35. False
  36. think of wild ideas
  37. Improve
  38. Create
  39. no, it repeats
  40. Imagine

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