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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 292 · 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) check it against goals (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) measure its performance
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) pick the build order (d) redesign after testing
  12. 12.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  15. 15.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  19. 19.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) check it against goals (c) ask who will use it (d) pick the build order
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) follow the plan to build (c) dream up possible fixes (d) try it out
  27. 27.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) dream up possible fixes (c) try it out (d) ask who will use it
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) make a prototype (c) pick the build order (d) measure its performance
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  35. 35.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) try it out (c) find the limits (d) follow the plan to build
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) check it against goals

Answer key

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

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