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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 503 · 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 fix the weak part? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Create
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) give up
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  7. 7.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  8. 8.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  10. 10.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Improve”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  11. 11.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) find the limits (b) fix the weak part (c) ask who will use it (d) list the materials
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make a prototype (b) dream up possible fixes (c) find the limits (d) list the materials
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  15. 15.True or false: to check it against goals is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) build the model (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) try it out
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  18. 18.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Plan
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  28. 28.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  29. 29.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Ask
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) redesign after testing
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  32. 32.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) list the materials (b) ask who will use it (c) follow the plan to build (d) make it better, retest
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  35. 35.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  38. 38.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Create
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Ask
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine

Answer key

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

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