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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 343 · 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 “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  5. 5.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) dream up possible fixes (d) pick the build order
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) make a prototype
  13. 13.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  15. 15.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) follow the plan to build (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) pick the build order (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Create
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  25. 25.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  28. 28.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  32. 32.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  35. 35.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  37. 37.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  40. 40.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

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

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