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Engineering Design Process Worksheet

Engineering lesson 3: The engineering design process · Set 584 · 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) Imagine (d) Improve
  2. 2.🔄 Which design-process step is it to brainstorm many ideas? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  3. 3.🔄 Which design-process step is it to fix the weak part? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Plan
  4. 4.🔄 Which design-process step is it to pick the build order? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Improve (d) Ask
  5. 5.🔄 Which design-process step is it to measure its performance? (a) Ask (b) Test (c) Create (d) Plan
  6. 6.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the FIRST step? (a) Test (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Create
  7. 7.🔄 Is the engineering design process done only once? (a) no, it repeats (b) only on Sundays (c) only for big jobs (d) yes, only once
  8. 8.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Create”? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Plan
  9. 9.Which of these happens in the Plan step? (a) draw a labelled diagram (b) think of wild ideas (c) ask who will use it (d) follow the plan to build
  10. 10.🔄 Which design-process step is it to try it out? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Test (d) Imagine
  11. 11.🔄 In which step do engineers draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Plan (c) Ask (d) Test
  12. 12.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Test (d) Ask
  13. 13.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) redesign after testing (b) dream up possible fixes (c) measure its performance (d) build the model
  14. 14.True or false: to draw a labelled diagram is the Plan step. (a) True (b) False
  15. 15.🔄 Which design-process step is it to define the problem? (a) Test (b) Improve (c) Ask (d) Imagine
  16. 16.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Imagine”? (a) Plan (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Create
  17. 17.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Create” or “Plan”? (a) Create (b) Plan
  18. 18.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Test” or “Ask”? (a) Ask (b) Test
  19. 19.🔄 What is the FIRST step of the engineering design process? (a) Create (b) Ask (c) Test (d) Improve
  20. 20.🔄 After testing, a design does not work well. What comes next? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) give up (d) Imagine
  21. 21.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Test”? (a) Imagine (b) Test
  22. 22.Which of these happens in the Test step? (a) check it against goals (b) make a prototype (c) list the materials (d) fix the weak part
  23. 23.🔄 Which design-process step is it to build the model? (a) Imagine (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Test
  24. 24.🔄 Which design-process step is it to draw a labelled diagram? (a) Improve (b) Create (c) Plan (d) Imagine
  25. 25.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Ask” or “Create”? (a) Ask (b) Create
  26. 26.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Improve step. (a) True (b) False
  27. 27.🔄 Which design-process step is it to list the materials? (a) Create (b) Plan (c) Imagine (d) Test
  28. 28.True or false: to make it better, retest is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  29. 29.True or false: to redesign after testing is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  30. 30.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) redesign after testing (b) dream up possible fixes (c) list the materials (d) make a prototype
  31. 31.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which is the LAST step? (a) Ask (b) Improve (c) Create (d) Imagine
  32. 32.Which of these happens in the Create step? (a) think of wild ideas (b) make a prototype (c) list the materials (d) check it against goals
  33. 33.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, which comes first: “Imagine” or “Plan”? (a) Imagine (b) Plan
  34. 34.True or false: to ask who will use it is the Ask step. (a) False (b) True
  35. 35.🔄 Which design-process step is it to redesign after testing? (a) Imagine (b) Ask (c) Plan (d) Improve
  36. 36.True or false: to fix the weak part is the Create step. (a) True (b) False
  37. 37.🔢 To follow the engineering design process, what comes right after “Test”? (a) Plan (b) Create (c) Imagine (d) Improve
  38. 38.Which of these happens in the Improve step? (a) dream up possible fixes (b) ask who will use it (c) make it better, retest (d) build the model
  39. 39.True or false: to think of wild ideas is the Imagine step. (a) False (b) True
  40. 40.Which of these happens in the Ask step? (a) make it better, retest (b) brainstorm many ideas (c) define the problem (d) make a prototype

Answer key

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

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