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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 548 · 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) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Imagine
  2. 2.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) find the limits (b) try it out (c) check it against goals (d) measure its performance
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Improve (b) Ask
  4. 4.True or false: to define the problem is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Test (d) Create
  6. 6.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) define the problem (b) measure its performance (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) build the model
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Imagine (d) Create
  11. 11.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Plan
  13. 13.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Test
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Test
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Ask
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Test”? (a) Create (b) Test
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Create
  21. 21.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) give up (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  23. 23.True or false: to dream up possible fixes is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) define the problem (b) make a prototype (c) dream up possible fixes (d) measure its performance
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  29. 29.True or false: to measure its performance is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  31. 31.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Improve
  32. 32.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  34. 34.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) no, it repeats
  35. 35.True or false: to list the materials is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  36. 36.True or false: to make a prototype is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  38. 38.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) measure its performance (b) pick the build order (c) ask who will use it (d) dream up possible fixes
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Plan

Answer key

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

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