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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 53 · 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) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Test
  4. 4.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) give up (d) Imagine
  5. 5.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  9. 9.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  10. 10.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only on Sundays (b) no, it repeats (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  11. 11.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  14. 14.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) measure its performance (b) list the materials (c) define the problem (d) think of wild ideas
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Improve
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  18. 18.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) find the limits (b) list the materials (c) make a prototype (d) build the model
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  22. 22.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Create
  26. 26.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  29. 29.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  31. 31.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) measure its performance (c) think of wild ideas (d) ask who will use it
  33. 33.True or false: to measure its performance is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Test
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  37. 37.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) brainstorm many ideas (b) follow the plan to build (c) measure its performance (d) fix the weak part
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) make it better, retest (c) measure its performance (d) list the materials
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Improve

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Ask
  3. Ask
  4. Improve
  5. True
  6. Create
  7. Improve
  8. Plan
  9. True
  10. no, it repeats
  11. True
  12. Imagine
  13. Improve
  14. define the problem
  15. Plan
  16. Imagine
  17. Ask
  18. Ask
  19. Plan
  20. list the materials
  21. Ask
  22. Imagine
  23. Plan
  24. Plan
  25. Imagine
  26. Improve
  27. Create
  28. Ask
  29. True
  30. Improve
  31. Imagine
  32. measure its performance
  33. True
  34. Ask
  35. Plan
  36. Plan
  37. False
  38. brainstorm many ideas
  39. dream up possible fixes
  40. Test

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