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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 445 · 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 “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) fix the weak part (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) draw a labelled diagram
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  10. 10.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Test
  14. 14.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) check it against goals (c) fix the weak part (d) pick the build order
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make a prototype (b) check it against goals (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  20. 20.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) find the limits
  23. 23.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) fix the weak part (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) try it out
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) make a prototype (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) build the model (c) redesign after testing (d) draw a labelled diagram
  33. 33.True or false: to make a prototype is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  35. 35.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Imagine
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) make a prototype (c) check it against goals (d) fix the weak part

Answer key

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

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