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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 452 · 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 “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  4. 4.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) find the limits (d) think of wild ideas
  5. 5.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) fix the weak part (c) check it against goals (d) measure its performance
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  9. 9.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) pick the build order (d) measure its performance
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Create
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) fix the weak part (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) find the limits
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) build the model (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) measure its performance
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) try it out (c) make it better, retest (d) redesign after testing
  20. 20.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  21. 21.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  24. 24.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only for big jobs (c) only on Sundays (d) yes, only once
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  30. 30.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) list the materials (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  39. 39.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask

Answer key

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

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