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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 353 · 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) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  5. 5.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) redesign after testing (c) build the model (d) pick the build order
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) follow the plan to build (c) make it better, retest (d) fix the weak part
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) measure its performance (d) dream up possible fixes
  28. 28.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) make it better, retest
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  32. 32.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) define the problem (c) make it better, retest (d) make a prototype
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) make a prototype (d) redesign after testing
  36. 36.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Create
  3. Improve
  4. Create
  5. pick the build order
  6. Imagine
  7. Imagine
  8. Plan
  9. Plan
  10. Imagine
  11. Ask
  12. Test
  13. Imagine
  14. try it out
  15. Test
  16. Improve
  17. Test
  18. Ask
  19. Plan
  20. Create
  21. Plan
  22. False
  23. list the materials
  24. Ask
  25. Plan
  26. Ask
  27. redesign after testing
  28. True
  29. brainstorm many ideas
  30. Imagine
  31. Ask
  32. False
  33. True
  34. define the problem
  35. make a prototype
  36. Improve
  37. False
  38. Create
  39. Ask
  40. Plan

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