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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 439 · 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.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  7. 7.True or false: to find the limits is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  10. 10.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  11. 11.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) list the materials (b) think of wild ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) try it out
  15. 15.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  17. 17.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  22. 22.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  24. 24.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) fix the weak part (d) list the materials
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  30. 30.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) check it against goals (c) make a prototype (d) draw a labelled diagram
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) define the problem (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) pick the build order (c) dream up possible fixes (d) measure its performance
  37. 37.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make a prototype (b) list the materials (c) find the limits (d) brainstorm many ideas
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  39. 39.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create

Answer key

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

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