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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 460 · 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) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Imagine
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) try it out
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  11. 11.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  12. 12.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Create
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) find the limits (c) dream up possible fixes (d) redesign after testing
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) define the problem (c) measure its performance (d) list the materials
  16. 16.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) think of wild ideas (c) check it against goals (d) draw a labelled diagram
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) find the limits (b) build the model (c) dream up possible fixes (d) list the materials
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) measure its performance (c) follow the plan to build (d) brainstorm many ideas
  26. 26.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) measure its performance (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) build the model
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) make a prototype (c) ask who will use it (d) draw a labelled diagram
  28. 28.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  33. 33.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  35. 35.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.True or false: to build the model is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) ask who will use it (b) pick the build order (c) list the materials (d) measure its performance
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Test (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

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

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