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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 484 · 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) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  4. 4.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) try it out (b) pick the build order (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  8. 8.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) try it out (c) redesign after testing (d) ask who will use it
  10. 10.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  13. 13.True or false: to check it against goals is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Improve
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) define the problem (c) follow the plan to build (d) redesign after testing
  17. 17.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  18. 18.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Plan
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  21. 21.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Test
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) list the materials (c) redesign after testing (d) make a prototype
  24. 24.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) dream up possible fixes
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  27. 27.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  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, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Create
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  34. 34.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  38. 38.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) try it out (b) fix the weak part (c) define the problem (d) measure its performance

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Imagine
  3. Improve
  4. True
  5. Ask
  6. build the model
  7. Imagine
  8. Improve
  9. try it out
  10. Plan
  11. Test
  12. Ask
  13. False
  14. Test
  15. Create
  16. follow the plan to build
  17. False
  18. False
  19. Improve
  20. Create
  21. True
  22. Imagine
  23. think of wild ideas
  24. False
  25. make a prototype
  26. Imagine
  27. True
  28. False
  29. Ask
  30. Ask
  31. False
  32. Plan
  33. Improve
  34. False
  35. Plan
  36. Imagine
  37. Imagine
  38. True
  39. Improve
  40. fix the weak part

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