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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 398 · 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: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  6. 6.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Improve (d) Ask
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) try it out (b) define the problem (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) redesign after testing
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  12. 12.True or false: to define the problem is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  13. 13.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) try it out (c) find the limits (d) build the model
  15. 15.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) pick the build order (c) make a prototype (d) make it better, retest
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) build the model (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  19. 19.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  23. 23.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) pick the build order (c) try it out (d) make it better, retest
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  26. 26.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) measure its performance (c) dream up possible fixes (d) draw a labelled diagram
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) think of wild ideas (d) try it out
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  34. 34.True or false: to measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) make a prototype (c) think of wild ideas (d) fix the weak part
  36. 36.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. Plan
  2. Create
  3. Imagine
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. Improve
  7. Plan
  8. Ask
  9. brainstorm many ideas
  10. Improve
  11. Imagine
  12. False
  13. False
  14. find the limits
  15. Ask
  16. pick the build order
  17. Test
  18. build the model
  19. True
  20. Plan
  21. False
  22. Create
  23. no, it repeats
  24. make it better, retest
  25. check it against goals
  26. True
  27. True
  28. draw a labelled diagram
  29. redesign after testing
  30. Imagine
  31. Test
  32. Improve
  33. Improve
  34. False
  35. think of wild ideas
  36. False
  37. True
  38. Imagine
  39. Ask
  40. Plan

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