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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 468 · 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.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  2. 2.True or false: to try it out is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) list the materials (c) make it better, retest (d) try it out
  10. 10.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  12. 12.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) give up
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) pick the build order (b) fix the weak part (c) list the materials (d) brainstorm many ideas
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) measure its performance (d) make a prototype
  17. 17.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) dream up possible fixes (c) redesign after testing (d) try it out
  20. 20.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.True or false: to list the materials is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  22. 22.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan
  24. 24.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  25. 25.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Ask
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  28. 28.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) follow the plan to build (d) fix the weak part
  31. 31.True or false: to measure its performance is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) build the model (b) define the problem (c) fix the weak part (d) draw a labelled diagram
  33. 33.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  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 try it out? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  38. 38.True or false: to try it out is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine

Answer key

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

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