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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 561 · 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) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to follow the plan to build? (a) Imagine (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  3. 3.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  4. 4.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Create”? (a) Test (b) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔄 Which design-process step is it to check it against goals? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Test
  9. 9.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Create (c) Improve (d) Ask
  10. 10.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  11. 11.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Test
  12. 12.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) try it out (b) find the limits (c) pick the build order (d) brainstorm many ideas
  13. 13.True or false: to build the model is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Plan (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  15. 15.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) define the problem (c) check it against goals (d) pick the build order
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Improve
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Ask (c) Create (d) Plan
  19. 19.True or false: to find the limits is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  20. 20.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  21. 21.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) dream up possible fixes (d) make it better, retest
  22. 22.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) yes, only once (d) only for big jobs
  23. 23.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) define the problem (b) pick the build order (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) try it out
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Test
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Improve
  26. 26.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Plan”? (a) Improve (b) Plan
  27. 27.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) pick the build order (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) make it better, retest (d) dream up possible fixes
  28. 28.🔄 Which design-process step is it to think of wild ideas? (a) Plan (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Create
  29. 29.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) check it against goals (b) think of wild ideas (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  31. 31.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) ask who will use it (b) redesign after testing (c) dream up possible fixes (d) think of wild ideas
  32. 32.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Test
  33. 33.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Improve (d) Create
  34. 34.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  35. 35.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  36. 36.True or false: to find the limits is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.True or false: to list the materials is the Plan step. (a) False (b) True
  38. 38.True or false: to build the model is the Ask step. (a) True (b) False
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Improve”? (a) Improve (b) Imagine
  40. 40.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) True (b) False

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Create
  3. True
  4. Plan
  5. Imagine
  6. Create
  7. Improve
  8. Test
  9. Create
  10. Ask
  11. Test
  12. find the limits
  13. True
  14. Improve
  15. define the problem
  16. Test
  17. Improve
  18. Plan
  19. False
  20. Imagine
  21. check it against goals
  22. no, it repeats
  23. try it out
  24. Improve
  25. Ask
  26. Plan
  27. pick the build order
  28. Imagine
  29. Plan
  30. build the model
  31. ask who will use it
  32. Plan
  33. Imagine
  34. Test
  35. Imagine
  36. True
  37. True
  38. False
  39. Imagine
  40. False

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