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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 453 · 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: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) make a prototype
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  9. 9.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) yes, only once (c) only for big jobs (d) only on Sundays
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) build the model (c) define the problem (d) follow the plan to build
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  13. 13.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  16. 16.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  18. 18.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) build the model (c) make it better, retest (d) think of wild ideas
  21. 21.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) follow the plan to build (c) dream up possible fixes (d) draw a labelled diagram
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  30. 30.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) measure its performance (c) pick the build order (d) follow the plan to build
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to define the problem is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) think of wild ideas (d) follow the plan to build
  37. 37.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  38. 38.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) ask who will use it (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) ask who will use it (b) find the limits (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials

Answer key

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

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