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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 491 · 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 “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  2. 2.True or false: to try it out is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  3. 3.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  6. 6.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  7. 7.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  8. 8.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  10. 10.True or false: to try it out is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Create”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  12. 12.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) build the model (d) measure its performance
  15. 15.True or false: to check it against goals is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Plan
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  19. 19.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) measure its performance (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) fix the weak part
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  21. 21.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) think of wild ideas
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  27. 27.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  28. 28.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) yes, only once (c) only on Sundays (d) no, it repeats
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) check it against goals (d) think of wild ideas
  31. 31.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) check it against goals (b) define the problem (c) think of wild ideas (d) brainstorm many ideas
  34. 34.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) measure its performance (c) find the limits (d) dream up possible fixes
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  36. 36.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  38. 38.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Create
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan

Answer key

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

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