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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 345 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  5. 5.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔄 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
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  9. 9.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make a prototype (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) define the problem
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) find the limits (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) think of wild ideas
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) define the problem (d) draw a labelled diagram
  17. 17.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) ask who will use it
  24. 24.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) make a prototype (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) think of wild ideas
  31. 31.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  34. 34.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test

Answer key

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

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