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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 414 · 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: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) think of wild ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) pick the build order
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) give up
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  6. 6.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) pick the build order (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  8. 8.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) list the materials (b) make it better, retest (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  14. 14.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  18. 18.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.True or false: to try it out is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) dream up possible fixes (c) build the model (d) try it out
  21. 21.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) no, it repeats (d) only on Sundays
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) list the materials (c) try it out (d) think of wild ideas
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) dream up possible fixes (c) ask who will use it (d) fix the weak part
  28. 28.True or false: to measure its performance is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) make a prototype (c) list the materials (d) brainstorm many ideas
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Plan
  33. 33.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) make it better, retest (d) pick the build order
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  40. 40.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. follow the plan to build
  4. Improve
  5. Plan
  6. False
  7. pick the build order
  8. Ask
  9. list the materials
  10. Ask
  11. Ask
  12. Ask
  13. Improve
  14. False
  15. Improve
  16. Test
  17. Imagine
  18. False
  19. False
  20. build the model
  21. False
  22. Test
  23. Plan
  24. no, it repeats
  25. Create
  26. try it out
  27. ask who will use it
  28. False
  29. make a prototype
  30. Improve
  31. Improve
  32. Imagine
  33. True
  34. Plan
  35. make it better, retest
  36. Imagine
  37. Ask
  38. Imagine
  39. Create
  40. False

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