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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 483 · 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: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  3. 3.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) fix the weak part (c) make a prototype (d) make it better, retest
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to pick the build order is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  8. 8.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) make a prototype (b) try it out (c) redesign after testing (d) pick the build order
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) fix the weak part (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) brainstorm many ideas
  18. 18.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Plan
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  21. 21.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  23. 23.True or false: to measure its performance is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) check it against goals (b) build the model (c) fix the weak part (d) brainstorm many ideas
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  27. 27.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) think of wild ideas (c) measure its performance (d) find the limits
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  31. 31.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) yes, only once (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) no, it repeats
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) make a prototype (d) dream up possible fixes
  33. 33.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  35. 35.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) redesign after testing
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Test
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) pick the build order (c) define the problem (d) redesign after testing
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  40. 40.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. make a prototype
  4. Improve
  5. Improve
  6. True
  7. Improve
  8. False
  9. Create
  10. Plan
  11. Ask
  12. Imagine
  13. try it out
  14. Plan
  15. Ask
  16. Imagine
  17. follow the plan to build
  18. Plan
  19. Improve
  20. Imagine
  21. False
  22. Ask
  23. False
  24. Test
  25. brainstorm many ideas
  26. Test
  27. False
  28. find the limits
  29. Imagine
  30. Ask
  31. no, it repeats
  32. dream up possible fixes
  33. Ask
  34. Test
  35. False
  36. pick the build order
  37. Imagine
  38. redesign after testing
  39. Plan
  40. True

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