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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 531 · 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, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) redesign after testing (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) check it against goals
  3. 3.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  5. 5.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  7. 7.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) give up (d) Improve
  8. 8.True or false: to list the materials is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  10. 10.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Plan
  12. 12.🔄 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
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  14. 14.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Ask (d) Test
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) fix the weak part (b) make a prototype (c) define the problem (d) make it better, retest
  19. 19.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Improve
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) follow the plan to build (d) draw a labelled diagram
  21. 21.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Plan
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) draw a labelled diagram (c) fix the weak part (d) think of wild ideas
  23. 23.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Plan
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) make it better, retest (b) think of wild ideas (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) check it against goals
  28. 28.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) think of wild ideas (c) define the problem (d) list the materials
  29. 29.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) make it better, retest (b) check it against goals (c) build the model (d) think of wild ideas
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  31. 31.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  34. 34.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Imagine
  35. 35.True or false: to define the problem is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Create (c) Test (d) Imagine
  37. 37.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  40. 40.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. think of wild ideas
  3. False
  4. Ask
  5. Plan
  6. Improve
  7. Improve
  8. False
  9. Plan
  10. True
  11. Ask
  12. no, it repeats
  13. Imagine
  14. False
  15. True
  16. Ask
  17. Plan
  18. make a prototype
  19. Create
  20. draw a labelled diagram
  21. Imagine
  22. find the limits
  23. Ask
  24. Improve
  25. Imagine
  26. Imagine
  27. make it better, retest
  28. fix the weak part
  29. build the model
  30. Test
  31. False
  32. True
  33. True
  34. Imagine
  35. False
  36. Test
  37. True
  38. False
  39. Plan
  40. Plan

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