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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 405 · 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) Ask (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) build the model (b) list the materials (c) redesign after testing (d) define the problem
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) ask who will use it
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  22. 22.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  23. 23.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) no, it repeats (c) only on Sundays (d) only for big jobs
  24. 24.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make a prototype (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) pick the build order
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  29. 29.True or false: to pick the build order is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  32. 32.True or false: to check it against goals is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  35. 35.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) think of wild ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) check it against goals (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) redesign after testing (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) make a prototype
  40. 40.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Imagine
  3. think of wild ideas
  4. Test
  5. Ask
  6. Ask
  7. Imagine
  8. Create
  9. build the model
  10. Improve
  11. Improve
  12. Improve
  13. Create
  14. Imagine
  15. Ask
  16. Improve
  17. define the problem
  18. Plan
  19. make a prototype
  20. Plan
  21. Imagine
  22. Plan
  23. no, it repeats
  24. False
  25. Test
  26. Plan
  27. brainstorm many ideas
  28. Ask
  29. False
  30. False
  31. Plan
  32. False
  33. Plan
  34. Ask
  35. False
  36. True
  37. measure its performance
  38. fix the weak part
  39. ask who will use it
  40. True

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