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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 280 · 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 is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) measure its performance (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) follow the plan to build
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  13. 13.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) only for big jobs
  15. 15.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  17. 17.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) try it out (d) fix the weak part
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) define the problem (d) dream up possible fixes
  23. 23.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) build the model (c) make a prototype (d) ask who will use it
  27. 27.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) draw a labelled diagram
  30. 30.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) pick the build order (c) follow the plan to build (d) draw a labelled diagram
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  35. 35.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test

Answer key

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

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