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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 563 · 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) Imagine (d) Test
  2. 2.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Create (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to dream up possible fixes? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  4. 4.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  6. 6.True or false: to list the materials is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  7. 7.🔄 Which design-process step is it to ask who will use it? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Create (d) Ask
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Plan” or “Test”? (a) Test (b) Plan
  9. 9.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Plan (d) Ask
  10. 10.True or false: to check it against goals is the Test step. (a) True (b) False
  11. 11.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) follow the plan to build (d) find the limits
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Plan (b) Create
  13. 13.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Test (b) Plan (c) Create (d) Improve
  14. 14.🔄 Which design-process step is it to find the limits? (a) Imagine (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Ask
  15. 15.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Ask (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Imagine
  16. 16.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) find the limits (c) build the model (d) brainstorm many ideas
  17. 17.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Imagine (b) give up (c) Ask (d) Improve
  18. 18.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) fix the weak part (b) find the limits (c) pick the build order (d) define the problem
  19. 19.True or false: to build the model is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  20. 20.Which of these happens in the Imagine step? (a) find the limits (b) ask who will use it (c) brainstorm many ideas (d) fix the weak part
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Ask”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask
  22. 22.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Improve (b) Imagine (c) Plan (d) Ask
  23. 23.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Imagine step. (a) True (b) False
  24. 24.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Improve (b) Test (c) Ask (d) Create
  25. 25.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) fix the weak part (b) list the materials (c) draw a labelled diagram (d) ask who will use it
  26. 26.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) only for big jobs (b) only on Sundays (c) no, it repeats (d) yes, only once
  27. 27.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Test (b) Imagine (c) Improve (d) Create
  28. 28.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Test”? (a) Improve (b) Test
  29. 29.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Improve” or “Imagine”? (a) Imagine (b) Improve
  31. 31.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  32. 32.True or false: to define the problem is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  33. 33.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) define the problem (b) list the materials (c) redesign after testing (d) think of wild ideas
  34. 34.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Improve step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) pick the build order (b) check it against goals (c) think of wild ideas (d) make a prototype
  36. 36.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Ask
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Ask”? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan
  38. 38.True or false: to brainstorm many ideas is the Test step. (a) False (b) True
  39. 39.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  40. 40.🔄 Which design-process step is it to make it better, retest? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Imagine (d) Plan

Answer key

  1. Ask
  2. Improve
  3. Imagine
  4. Ask
  5. Ask
  6. False
  7. Ask
  8. Plan
  9. Plan
  10. True
  11. follow the plan to build
  12. Plan
  13. Plan
  14. Ask
  15. Improve
  16. find the limits
  17. Improve
  18. fix the weak part
  19. False
  20. brainstorm many ideas
  21. Ask
  22. Improve
  23. True
  24. Ask
  25. ask who will use it
  26. no, it repeats
  27. Create
  28. Test
  29. False
  30. Imagine
  31. True
  32. False
  33. define the problem
  34. True
  35. make a prototype
  36. Imagine
  37. Imagine
  38. False
  39. Imagine
  40. Improve

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