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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 382 · 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, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  8. 8.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) make a prototype (d) brainstorm many ideas
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  12. 12.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  13. 13.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) try it out (d) think of wild ideas
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) make a prototype (c) fix the weak part (d) draw a labelled diagram
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) try it out (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  21. 21.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) give up
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  23. 23.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) ask who will use it (b) make it better, retest (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  25. 25.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  27. 27.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  30. 30.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) brainstorm many ideas
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Improve

Answer key

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

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