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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 391 · 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 “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  9. 9.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  10. 10.True or false: to find the limits is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) try it out (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) list the materials
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  15. 15.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) build the model (c) think of wild ideas (d) make it better, retest
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  22. 22.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) think of wild ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) measure its performance (c) list the materials (d) build the model
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  27. 27.True or false: to pick the build order is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  29. 29.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) ask who will use it (b) think of wild ideas (c) measure its performance (d) follow the plan to build
  31. 31.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  34. 34.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) find the limits
  36. 36.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) ask who will use it (d) define the problem

Answer key

  1. Improve
  2. Ask
  3. Plan
  4. Imagine
  5. Test
  6. Plan
  7. Create
  8. Plan
  9. Ask
  10. False
  11. Improve
  12. define the problem
  13. Ask
  14. Plan
  15. False
  16. Ask
  17. build the model
  18. Imagine
  19. Test
  20. Test
  21. Ask
  22. False
  23. try it out
  24. measure its performance
  25. Ask
  26. ask who will use it
  27. False
  28. Imagine
  29. True
  30. think of wild ideas
  31. True
  32. Imagine
  33. Ask
  34. Improve
  35. find the limits
  36. True
  37. False
  38. Ask
  39. Test
  40. pick the build order

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