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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 502 · 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.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Create
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) give up (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  6. 6.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) think of wild ideas (d) define the problem
  7. 7.True or false: to make a prototype is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  9. 9.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  10. 10.True or false: to try it out is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) make a prototype
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Test
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) pick the build order (b) redesign after testing (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype
  16. 16.🔄 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
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Imagine
  19. 19.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) build the model (b) ask who will use it (c) list the materials (d) measure its performance
  21. 21.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  22. 22.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Create
  24. 24.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) dream up possible fixes (c) check it against goals (d) list the materials
  25. 25.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  27. 27.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) define the problem (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  29. 29.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Create
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make a prototype? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  33. 33.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Plan
  36. 36.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) follow the plan to build (b) fix the weak part (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) dream up possible fixes
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  38. 38.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) pick the build order (d) make a prototype

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. Ask
  5. Improve
  6. define the problem
  7. True
  8. Test
  9. False
  10. False
  11. Improve
  12. Improve
  13. make a prototype
  14. Imagine
  15. redesign after testing
  16. no, it repeats
  17. Imagine
  18. Imagine
  19. True
  20. ask who will use it
  21. False
  22. Ask
  23. Create
  24. dream up possible fixes
  25. Plan
  26. Test
  27. False
  28. think of wild ideas
  29. False
  30. Imagine
  31. Ask
  32. Create
  33. True
  34. Ask
  35. Plan
  36. fix the weak part
  37. Improve
  38. False
  39. Plan
  40. pick the build order

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