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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 375 · 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 ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  5. 5.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  8. 8.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) ask who will use it
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) list the materials (c) measure its performance (d) ask who will use it
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) define the problem (d) ask who will use it
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  19. 19.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) give up
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  21. 21.True or false: to find the limits is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) define the problem
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) only for big jobs (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) fix the weak part (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  37. 37.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) measure its performance (c) ask who will use it (d) pick the build order
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) think of wild ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) dream up possible fixes
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) pick the build order (c) think of wild ideas (d) find the limits

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. Improve
  4. Imagine
  5. False
  6. Improve
  7. Imagine
  8. list the materials
  9. Plan
  10. Ask
  11. Improve
  12. find the limits
  13. Imagine
  14. measure its performance
  15. Create
  16. draw a labelled diagram
  17. Ask
  18. Ask
  19. Improve
  20. Improve
  21. False
  22. True
  23. True
  24. define the problem
  25. Create
  26. no, it repeats
  27. Test
  28. fix the weak part
  29. Test
  30. Plan
  31. False
  32. Ask
  33. Plan
  34. Plan
  35. Imagine
  36. Ask
  37. True
  38. pick the build order
  39. redesign after testing
  40. think of wild ideas

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