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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 342 · 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 “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) build the model
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) list the materials (c) redesign after testing (d) brainstorm many ideas
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  13. 13.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 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
  16. 16.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  21. 21.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) pick the build order (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  25. 25.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) check it against goals (c) list the materials (d) dream up possible fixes
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  32. 32.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) give up
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) list the materials (d) follow the plan to build
  34. 34.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) fix the weak part (c) try it out (d) check it against goals
  38. 38.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.True or false: to make a prototype is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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