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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 556 · 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, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  3. 3.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Improve
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Create”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  5. 5.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  7. 7.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  9. 9.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  10. 10.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  13. 13.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  14. 14.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Plan (b) Test (c) Improve (d) Ask
  16. 16.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Create
  17. 17.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) redesign after testing (b) list the materials (c) make a prototype (d) brainstorm many ideas
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Ask
  19. 19.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  20. 20.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) measure its performance (b) think of wild ideas (c) redesign after testing (d) build the model
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  24. 24.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Ask”? (a) Plan (b) Ask
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) fix the weak part (b) pick the build order (c) ask who will use it (d) dream up possible fixes
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Ask
  27. 27.True or false: to find the limits is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  28. 28.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  30. 30.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Improve”? (a) Create (b) Improve
  32. 32.True or false: to check it against goals is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Ask
  34. 34.True or false: to follow the plan to build is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Create (b) Imagine (c) Ask (d) Improve
  37. 37.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  38. 38.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  39. 39.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Test (d) Improve
  40. 40.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True

Answer key

  1. Imagine
  2. Ask
  3. Improve
  4. Plan
  5. True
  6. Imagine
  7. Ask
  8. Imagine
  9. Plan
  10. True
  11. Create
  12. Improve
  13. True
  14. False
  15. Ask
  16. Create
  17. list the materials
  18. Ask
  19. Plan
  20. False
  21. think of wild ideas
  22. Improve
  23. Improve
  24. Ask
  25. dream up possible fixes
  26. Ask
  27. False
  28. Improve
  29. Create
  30. Plan
  31. Create
  32. False
  33. Plan
  34. True
  35. Test
  36. Ask
  37. False
  38. Plan
  39. Imagine
  40. False

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